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Re: emacs broken - displays empty rectangles in place of all characters



On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:21:27AM -0400, Adam Black wrote:
> Hi folks
> I'm a bit of a newbie.  I'm not sure what I've done to break emacs,
> but when it pops up now there are no characters, just empty rectangles
> - which makes me think the fonts are broken, but I don't know how to
> fix them.  I also get this error:
> 
> emacs
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> 
Hi Adam,
you may have an error that I found. Are you using an UTF-8 locale? if
so, do this:
'LC_ALL=en_US emacs'
and see if that fixes it.
Cheers,
Kev
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