[Xastir] Font Errors

[Dan Brown]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Clay Jackson wrote:

> I've just set up Xastir on a new system (Fedora Core 3, more or less
> vanilla install) and I'm seeing lots of the following errors from a
> connection to northwest.aprs2.net.
>
> Warning:
>    Name: create_appshell text_output2
>    Class: XmTextField
>    Character '\260' not supported in font.  Discarded.
>
> I'm assuming it means that I'm missing some characters in my default
> font; but have NO idea how to fix it.
>
> Help?

This is probably in the FAQ - but, the easiest way to fix this is to
set an environment variable such as:

$ export LANG=c 
$ xastir

You can also do:

$ LANG=c xastir

To just have that set for that particular xastir session. I'd suggest
thinking about making it an alias.

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Dan Brown 
brown at brauhausdc.org