Public bug reported:
My xrdb database contains lots of the following:
*Font: -microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*font: -microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*FontSet: -microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
However, when I start an application such as xfontsel:
$ xfontsel
Warning: Cannot convert string "-microsoft-trebuchet
ms-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Now, this font exists:
$ xlsfonts -fn "-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso10646-1
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-10
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-13
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-14
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-15
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-2
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-3
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-4
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-5
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-7
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-9
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-koi8-r
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-koi8-u
-microsoft-trebuchet ms-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-microsoft-cp1251
This is probably due to my locale being UTF-8:
$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
...
As if I set LANG to C it works fine. I could live with the warning if
that was the only problem, but Xemacs doesn't fall back if it can't find
a fontset and won't start: I need to set LANG=C to start XEmacs in Edgy
(worked in Dapper).
** Affects: libx11 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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Cannot get FontSet in UTF-8 locale
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57992
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