[Xastir] Font Resolution Sought

[Steve Friis]

My apology. I actually missed that you did read the FAQ.


><> Steve/WM5Z +




C. Griffin wrote:
> Steve,
>
> If you read my message below yours carefully, which you quoted in it's 
> entirety with the line in question, you will see that I tried "en_US" 
> and it is still set at that. And it didn't help the situation. I am 
> not using RedHat. I have also tried "C" without success. I appreciate 
> that folks think this is benign, but when there are 1/second, 
> 60/minute, 3,600/hour, 86,400/day, 604,800/week, etc ... it can become 
> very tedious looking for a REAL problem. And these are not just going 
> into a simple rotated Xastir log, they are going into my system logs 
> (for which Xastir doesn't control the rotation). So lets make this 
> "benign" irritation go away!!!
>
> The recommended solutions aren't working, can I have some more 
> suggestions of where to look.
>
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:34, Steve Friis wrote:
>
>> There is a solution, and it is very easy to fix.
>>
>> Below is a quote from the FAQ file in the xastir directory.
>>
>> 4.13 Why do I see "Character '\55' not supported in font"?
>>
>>    This message and similar have 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 
>> LANG="en_US".  In
>>    RH 9 the default LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 and this is where the 
>> warnings
>>    are coming from.
>>
>>    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.
>>
>> You did read the FAQ, right? ;-)
>>
>>> <> Steve/WM5Z +
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> C. Griffin wrote:
>>> I've seen this on the list before, and the solutions haven't worked 
>>> for me. I need to find an end to this or I'm going to have to abort 
>>> Xastir as the errors fill my console and system logs to unrealistic 
>>> levels.
>>>
>>> Here's the situation. I get the following messages continually if 
>>> Xastir is running:
>>>
>>>> Warning:
>>>>    Name: create_appshell text_output2
>>>>    Class: XmTextField
>>>>    Character '\260' not supported in font. Discarded.
>>>
>>> There is one of these messages written every second or two in the 
>>> log. Needless to say it's beyond ridiculous.
>>>
>>> Previous messages recommended changing the $LANG variable. I've 
>>> tried the recommended "en_US" as well as other settings. Nothing 
>>> seems to stop it. The fonts I'm using are:
>>>
>>> Menu:       courier-medium-14
>>> Station:    clean-medium-13
>>> Map Tiny:   helvetica-medium-8
>>> Map Small:  helvetica-medium-10
>>> Map Medium: helvetica-medium-12
>>> Map Large:  helvetica-medium-14
>>> Map Huge:   helvetica-medium-24
>>> Map Border: helvetica-medium-14
>>> ATV ID:     clean-medium-15
>>>
>>> I don't recall what the original fonts were. All of these fonts 
>>> exist on my system. What is character "\260' and why do we need it? 
>>> It seems to be the only character that ever causes this.
>>>
>>> Help on this matter is desperately sought.
>>>
>>>
>>> System is Mac OS X (Leopard v10.5.6)
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Chip
>>>      n1mie at mac.com
>>>
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> -- Chip
>      n1mie at mac.com
>
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