X Font Server and xorg-x11 under UTF-8 locale.

genb0y · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 20

I don't know very well about xfs.
When using xfree, I used it without starting xfs. But I could use core X fonts without any problem.

I switched xorg-x11 from xfree and encountered the weird problem.
When I ran X basic programs such as xfontsel in xorg-x11 under UTF-8 locale, I got this error message.

genb0y · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 20

Is this problem only to me?

If there is anyone who use xorg-x11 under UTF-8 locale, please check this.
I wonder whether you got this error or not.

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

You are not alone, i've got the same here.
I'm still looking for a solution, i will post when found something relevant.
i never used xfs, and with xorg i use xft.
some apps work's fine with utf8 locale, but few apps give-me this error message:

dju` · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 370

same here, furthermore, i get X using 100% cpu when launching xedit or xcalc, for about 30 seconds, then it starts up. same thing for fluxbox-0.9* where 100% cpu is taken by X for 3-4 minutes.
i'm suspecting USE +userlocales for glibc.

nulluser · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 7

Same problem here.

And I found it happens only with GNOME.
In KDE, that programs are launched without any problem, and in twm they work too.

My xorg-x11 : 6.8.1.901 (6.8.2 RC 1)
Gnome : 2.8.1
locale : en_US.UTF-8
I don't use xfs, and start X by running startx.

As I said, they(xedit, xfontsel...) work well in KDE and twm, but in gnome...

BCEM_KOTAM_KOT · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

bbroeksema · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem also. Followed the locale and utf guide and after that get errormessages like:

twm: warning: font for charset JISX0208.1983-0 is lacking

when starting x.

Removing 02locale env.d "solves" the problem. But not for real of course because the system hasn't the right language set. Is there a real solution/workaroud (whatever it's called

) for this?

Varuna · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

bbroeksema · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 11:29 am Post subject:

Found the problem:

USE="cjk" should be enabled when xorg-x11 is compiled. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml does mention this at the xorg part. Als make sure that you have the right charsets configured in the kernel ( e.g. UTF-8 ) I did forget the iso-8559-15. Changing these two things solved the problem for me.

gnobus · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Seoul, Korea

hwchen · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Taiwan

Thank you!!

You guys are marvellous

It really works for me

Would you like to give me a hand to explain the problem briefly? I know few about the font processing for X.

thanks a lot

djm · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject:

I had this problem and fixed it by remerging xorg-x11 with USE=cjk

But now modular X is here, and there's no cjk flag, and the problem has come back.

Has anyone found a way of getting round this with modular X?

The migration guide talks about the cjk USE flag:

vonr · Guru Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 300

Strange. For me emerging font-jis-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-daewoo-misc solved the messages I was getting with fvwm.

djm · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject:

Ok, after restarting X (I was being lazy and hoping I didn't have to), I still get the following warning

Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap

But apart from that things seem to work fine
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