Bug 8205

Summary:	Xorg wants to load odd character sets with UTF-8 locale
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	paapaa125
Component:	Fonts/other	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	7.0.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description paapaa125 2006-09-09 14:53:47 UTC

I got some odd warnings using UTF-8 locale. I'm not sure what is the correct
component for bug reporting. This is what I did:

1. Made a fresh Gentoo install (2006.1 for x86) following official guides.
2. Installed Xorg 7.0.0 and configured properly.
3. Changed my locale to "en_US.UTF-8"
4. "startx" (this starts X and twm the basic WM and opens xterm+xclock)

I got these messages in stdout:

"twm: warning: font for charset JISX0208.1983-0 is lacking."
"twm: warning: font for charset KSC5601.1987-0 is lacking."
"twm: warning: font for charset GB2312.1980-0 is lacking."
...

I got this in stderr:

"Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion"

If I try to execute xcalc, xfontsel or xclock, I allways get the same warning:
"Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion".

Why does X want to have/load these Asian character sets? Is this a bug or is
this a known feature of UTF-8 locales?

Comment 1 paapaa125 2006-09-10 00:32:35 UTC

Some additional information. If I use the FVWM window manager and ask it to
output some locale information I get this:


FVWM info on locale:
locale: en_US.UTF-8, Modifier
...
XOM Charsets: ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 JISX0208.1983-0 KSC5601.1987-0
GB2312.1980-0 JISX0201.1976-0 ISO10646-1

If I'm not mistaken (very possible I'm wrong...) this list is reported by Xorg
like this:


om = XOpenOM(dpy, NULL, NULL, NULL);
  if (om && (XGetOMValues(om, XNRequiredCharSet, &cs, NULL)) == NULL)
  {

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:33:30 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-02 02:57:42 UTC

Please report this to Gentoo.

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