[Xastir] text error? I know I'm missing something obvious

[Kurt A. Freiberger]

Mine is set to LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - Should this not work?  I get the 
messages as well.

Merry Humbug,
Kurt


Chuck Byam wrote:
> J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> 
>> It's in the FAQ...
>>
>> export LANG=C
>> or
>> export LANG=en_US
>>
>>
>> -Lance KJ5O
>>
>> Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
>>
>>> When I'm running Xastir, I've been seeing this error:
>>>
>>> Warning:
>>>     Name: create_appshell text_output2
>>>     Class: XmTextField
>>>     Character '\260' not supported in font.  Discarded.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure it's a font issue.  What I can't recall is the easy 
>>> fix.  Ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> gerry
>>
>>
> Lance is correct, this warming is issued when your system is using UTF-8 
> fonts (or multi-byte encodings which includes nearly all modern POSIX 
> systems) and Motif is not setup to handle character encodings above 0x7F 
> (ASCII characters <=  127).  While this will resolve the warnings I 
> wouldn't suggest making this a global change; UTF-8 fonts are much more 
> efficient than UCS.  You can start xastir from a shell and make that env 
> setting from within.  I have resolved this warning in the codebase that 
> I am working on and will submit this for the groups consumption in the 
> very near future as it is tied to a  better localization schema that 
> isn't quite finished yet.
> -- 
> Chuck
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