Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Jan D.]

> > > That is truly odd.  How come the XIM code doesn't trigger this
> > > same problem?
>
> > I think the XIM code explicitly names the charset it wants.
>
> But our XIM code calls XCreateFontSet, just like Xt code.
> And browsing the Xt source, the "Cannot convert string to FontSet" 
> message
> seems to be generated when XCreateFontSet returns NULL, so maybe
> we could track it down further by making an appropriate call to 
> XFontSet and
> seeing what it returns.  Presumably it will return NULL but with a 
> non-zero
> list of missing charsets.

I've attached a test program.

        Jan D.

missfonts.c
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