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

[Kurt A. Freiberger]

Ack.  I got bit by top-posting.....  Nevermind.

Back to the coffee machine.

73/Kurt

Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:
> 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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Kurt Freiberger, WB5BBW   kurt at badgers-hill.net  Austin, TX