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

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

[Alexander Skwar]

Hi!

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

Thanks,

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

[Alexander Skwar]

· Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't start gvim: Error: Aborting: no fontset found

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 07:43:03AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked:
> I'm on:
> 
> alexander@blatt ~ $ locale
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

> > 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?
> 

I wasn't, so I installed it on my testing machine just to see. 
I don't have the de_DE.UTF-8 locale, but I tested 
de_DE@euro
fr_FR@euro
zh_TW
zh_HK
ja_JP
en_US
and don't see the same behaviour (which probably means my settings
[all defaults, I didn't change a thing] are okay). 

What if you tried using a different locale, say POSIX? does the error
message still show up? 

I am really groping in the dark here, so I don't even know if my
suggestion is on the right track or not. 

HTH, 

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