[Xastir] Fwd: Font errors continue

[Jim Darrough]

Ok. I wrote a fresh Raspbian Stretch image on a new MicroSD card and 
went through the entire xastir howto wiki on compiling from source. I 
now have version 2.11 installed and working, including GDAL (which took 
an amazing amount of time to make).

There are a couple of lines that differ from the wiki, notably imagmagik 
and fiesta, but I imagine that was on purpose. Also, I started via 
LANG=C xastir and am only getting the '/260' error, but no mention of 
fonts missing.

If I see anything degraded by using LANG=C xastir versus just xastir, 
I'll report it as requested, Tom.

I thank you for your help. Now to find a better map I can download. 
Should have my I-Gate up and running tomorrow or Wednesday, at least for 
RF in/out.

73 Jim KI7AY EM25pd

On 2/11/2019 5:07 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:53:40PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kd5mkv at hotmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> I looked through mailing list, and ran this in month of November 2018 without any error messages. launch xastir with this in terminal  LANG=C xastir     or   LANG=" " xastir
>>
>>
>> Running for hour with LANG=" " xastir , and nothing seen in terminal or /var/log/syslog.
>> Steve kd5mkv
> This should clear the "\260" error messages but not the helvetica problem.
> That second problem should be fixed by installing the 100dpi and 75dpi fonts
> packages and adding them to your fontpath.
>
> The \260 thing was introduced when Curt added support for the Greek language.
> Some of the problem was fixed in subsequent commits, but a lot of them still
> remain --- it's an issue of Xastir no longer forcing itself unconditionally
> into a certain locale like it used to do, and instead periodically switching
> locale only when it needs to do certain i/o operations.  But some of our
> graphics rendering (notably wherever we need to display the degree symbol)
> depends on not being in anything but C locale.
>
> I should note also that this isn't just a matter of spewing extra noise to
> the console, we're incorrectly rendering text on the maps and in station info
> dialogs that should be showing degree symbols, but instead displays nothing
> and *then* throws this warning.
>
> So there's some breakage as a result of adding support for the Greek language,
> and nobody's had time to go dig into it and unbreak it.
>
> Setting LANG=C or LANG=" " does end the warnings, but may have other annoying
> consequences that have not been thoroughly investigated.  Years ago I had
> problems with using "LANG=C" this way, and it broke certain dialog boxes
> by not letting me enter text into them.  If you see this happen, please let
> us know, because the fix for it back then was to NOT specify LANG=C and let
> Xastir's now-broken internal locale setting do its job.
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Xastir <xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org> on behalf of Jim Darrough <jim at ki7ay.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 9:46 AM
>> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
>> Subject: [Xastir] Fwd: Font errors continue
>>
>> I'm sending this out again. I have not yet conquered these error
>> messages, although Dave KD7MYC has been trying to help me.
>>
>> Question: If I add Adobe helvetica fonts to the system, will that cure
>> these issues?
>>
>> Question #2: If so, how do I do that?
>>
>> 73 again, KI7AY
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I rewrote a fresh Raspbian Stretch image onto a brand new Samsung PRO
>> ENdurance microSDHC UHS-1 card. I booted the RaspberryPi 3 v. B+ and
>> went through all the setups, including changing the root password to
>> something I can remember (and the Pi password, of course).
>>
>> I then went to https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian and
>> downloaded the shell script referenced there for Xastir.
>>
>> I ran the shell script (which completed properly).
>>
>> I then ran Xastir and did setup as needed. I used the standard default map.
>>
>> I now get these errors:
>>
>> *"Warning:**
>> **    Name: create_appshell text_output2**
>> **    Class: XmTextField**
>> **    Character '\260' not supported in font.  Discarded.**
>> **
>> **get_rotated_label_text_height_pixels: Couldn't get font
>> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"*
>>
>> The last line repeats over and over.
>>
>> Anyone have any insight for me?
>>
>> 73 Jim KI7AY EM25pd
>>
>> --
>> 73 Jim,KI7AY
>> la ciruela de Panama
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73 Jim,KI7AY
la ciruela de Panama