Nedit with Mandriva 2008

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting Scott Tringali <scott.tringali at totalviewtech.com>:

> 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
...
> > 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.

I always use xfontsel to choose a font. I wonder whether Mandriva isn't trying
to force use of scalable fonts over bitmapped ones.

Tony