[gentoo-user] Re: Can't start gvim: Error: Aborting: no fontset found

[Alexander Skwar]

· Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>:

> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 08:36:51PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked:
>> When I try to start gvim, it errors out with this error message:
>>
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
>> Error: Aborting: no fontset found
>>
>> What font is it trying to load?
>>
>> I don't have a ~/.vimrc, ~/.gvimrc and also no /etc/vim/vimrc.local
>> or /etc/vim/gvimrc.local. /etc/vim/vimrc and /etc/vim/gvimrc are the
>> default files.
>>
>> app-editors/gvim-7.0.91
>> app-editors/vim-7.0.91
>> app-editors/vim-core-7.0.91
>>
>
> Are you using a special locale?

"Special", like? :)

I'm on:

alexander@blatt ~ $ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

> I've seen that error message before
> when I ran an xterm with LC_ALL="zh_TW.Big5" and the guifontset
> specified in /etc/vim/vimrc did not exist...

If I read /etc/vim/* right, there are no special fonts set for
my locale.

> Also, check ~/.Xdefaults, vim also allows specification of fontsets
> using X11 resources.

I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults file.

Do you use the same version of gvim as I?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
-- 
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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