Bug#367410: xserver-xorg: font problems with some fixed fonts

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:12:36PM -0400, The Anarcat wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.0.18
> Severity: important
> 
> I hope this is not a dupe. I tried to go through the 1270+ bug list, but
> got tired at 700+, in the non-important bugs. I feel this is important
> enough to be tagged important.
> 
> Gnucash, emacs and others were broken by the 7.0 migration. Emacs
> complains:
> 
> 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
> 
> Gnucash:
> 
> The font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "fr_CA"
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
> Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> Here's a screenshot of how emacs likes it:
> 
> http://anarcat.ath.cx/snaps/fonts-busted.png
> 
> At least it starts... gnucash just dies there.
> 
> Any pointers? Fonts are working otherwise, and I've changed my paths in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf...

Please try the package at
http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xfonts-encodings_1.0.0-4_all.deb and
also make sure the other packages are up to date from the latest in
unstable. Let me know if that fixes your problem.

 - David Nusinow