Nedit with Mandriva 2008

[Scott Tringali]

Eric Bouyoux wrote:

> When I start nedit, I have :
> 
> UTF8 locale not supported.
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
> to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> 
> How can I add the helvetica-xxx and courier-xxx fonts that I would like
> to continue using.

They have to be installed locally on the machine running your X server. 
  We try to pick something that's available on all X servers, but 
recently things have been changing that the "standard" fonts are 
sometimes not there.  What does "xlsfonts|grep helv" show?

You can override all these fonts like this:

   nedit -xrm \
   '*fontList: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1'

Where the font is something you actually have.