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Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning

From jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning
Date 2026-09-19 12:32 -0400
Organization atr2net 2026
Message-ID <87tsnl2od2.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> (permalink)
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Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> writes:

> I get warnings each time I invoke gv:
>
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset

You get font warnings when you run gv? Noob. No reason to set LC_ALL=C
like it's the year 2000 all over again, just get better fonts.

locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

grep -v '!' .Xresources | grep -i font
*font:				-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso10646-1
*wideFont: 			-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
emacs*font:			-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
XTerm*faceName: RobotoMono Nerd Font

❰jayjwa❙~❱✔≻ gv 
❰jayjwa❙~❱✔≻ xfig
❰jayjwa❙~❱✔≻ 

> But this seemingly innocent episode reveals just how much
> of legacy GNU/Linux is being threatened by the pseudo-progressive
> morons of systemd/wayland/gnome.

Correct. Or "nu-linux" as I call it. 

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Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-19 01:32 +0000
  Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-09-19 12:32 -0400
    Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-19 22:10 +0000
      Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-20 02:53 +0000
        systemd and Wayland evangelization (was: Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-20 09:01 +0100
          Re: systemd and Wayland evangelization (was: Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning) Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-09-20 09:28 +0000
            Re: systemd and Wayland evangelization (was: Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning) Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-20 20:00 +0000
              Re: systemd and Wayland evangelization (was: Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning) Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-09-26 10:24 +0000
        Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-09-20 09:10 +0000
          Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-20 14:50 +0000
            Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-09-20 17:25 +0000
              Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-20 19:19 +0000
                Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-09-21 01:49 +0000
                Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-21 02:28 +0000
                Choices and flexibility in Linux distributions (was: Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-22 11:00 +0100
                Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-09-26 10:10 +0000
            Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-20 20:48 +0200
          Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-21 00:28 +0000
            Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-21 01:21 +0000
            Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-09-20 23:50 -0400
        Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-20 14:04 +0200
          Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-20 23:46 +0100
          Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-21 12:19 +0100
    Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-20 02:45 +0000
      Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-09-21 17:15 -0400
        Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-22 11:06 +0100
  X11 "Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion" (was: Re: Let's Have Some GNU/Linux: GV Postscript Warning) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-20 09:17 +0100

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