Sorry, I failed to reply-to-all with the following: That bug report should quit recurring with 4.6.0 when my fixes to the internationalization code get released.
However, we may instead get complaints that the menus look ugly -- because the user didn't have Helvetica installed and xboard fell back to "fixed". Sigh. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Arun Persaud <apers...@lbl.gov> wrote: > On 10/02/2011 08:18 AM, h.g. muller wrote: > > I guess this bug-report will keep recurring forever... > > > > Install the font! > > > > And make sure it is loaded in the X-server font cache. > > > > This is the only solution. There is no way XBoard could possibly work > > if you have no fonts: all the menus and dialogs would be blank. > > So printing this error message is the only logical solution. > > Since this seems to be a common problem, how about adding a more verbose > error message, e.g. "Possible solution: change font to a know font in > xboard.conf or install missing font (needs update of X-server font > cache). BTW: This is not a bug :)" > > Arun > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-XBoard mailing list > Bug-XBoard@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard >
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