[Xastir] Re: [Xastir-Dev] Argh! make problems

[Paul Lutt]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Chuck Byam wrote:

> On Sunday 04 May 2003 00:49, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> : Fixed.  Loaded.  Seems to be working.
> :
> : RH 9.0, latest Proj4, ShapeLibs, ImageMagic 5.5.6 with the RH distro,
> : ax25 libs and tools, etc.  CVS as of this afternoon.
> :
> : I'm seeing some anomolies like this:
> : Warning:
> :      Name: create_appshell text_output
> :      Class: XmTextField
> :      Character '\55' not supported in font.  Discarded.
> : ... I'm not sure what they mean, yet but I'm watching them.
> :
> : Lookin' good so far, guys...
> 
> This has to do with localization and OpenMotif/Lesstif.  For most of us this 
> is a benign message and can be ignored.  If you simply can't stand it any 
> more set LANG = C or en_US  In RH 9 the default LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 
> and this is where the "warning" are coming from.  I played around with 
> resolving this some time ago and didn't have much luck.  I think that in v2 
> we should move to a more generic localization process so that we could move 
> away from the independent language files.
> 
> -- Chuck
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A quick way to address this on RedHat 8 and 9 is to edit your 
/etc/sysconfig/i18n config file.  I believe the original file looks like:

  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
  SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
  SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Change the "LANG=" line to:

  LANG="en_US"

and reboot.

With the original setting you get some weird character mappings.  For
example, running "man ls", all of the dashes (-) disappeared from my
screen until I changed the LANG setting.  YMMV

--
Paul Lutt
KE7XT