diff PROBLEMS @ 1042:aea3ce44b888

[xemacs-hg @ 2002-10-08 06:06:48 by youngs] 2002-09-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> * PROBLEMS (Running, General): Missing charset in FontSet warnings. 2002-09-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> * Emacs.ad: Add charsets to *menubar*FontSet and *popup*FontSet.
author youngs
date Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:06:53 +0000
parents b33a835c21cc
children c2acbc874bf1
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--- a/PROBLEMS	Tue Oct 08 05:44:15 2002 +0000
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 * Problems with running XEmacs
 ==============================
 ** General
+*** At startup I get a warning on stderr about missing charsets:
+ 
+    Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
+ 
+You need to specify appropriate charsets for your locale (usually the
+value of the LANG environment variable) in .Xresources.  It looks like
+XFree86 4.x (the usual server on Linux and *BSD) has some braindamage
+where .UTF-8 locales will always generate this message, because the
+XFree86 (font)server doesn't know that UTF-8 will use the ISO10646-1
+font registry (or a Cmap or something).
+ 
+If you are not using a .UTF-8 locale and see this warning, please let
+xemacs-beta@xemacs.org know about it, so we can add fonts to the
+appropriate fontsets and stifle this warning.  (Unfortunately it's
+buried in Xlib, so we can't easily get rid of it otherwise.)
+
 *** Starting with 21.4.x, killing text is absurdly slow.
 
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