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20040628: Garp Font Errors on RHEL3

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  • Subject: 20040628: Garp Font Errors on RHEL3
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:55:11 -0600
Daryl,

This probably is a Unicode font issue as descussed in the GEMBUD list a while 
back:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gembud-list/msg00693.html

The solution is to set your environmental variable LANG to "C".

Steve CHiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Daryl Herzmann <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200406281343.i5SDhhWb011905

>Good morning,
>
>(Sorry to bug you on your first day back!)
>
>We are getting GEMPAK ramped up on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 here at ISU 
>and are having trouble with GARP.  The compile on RHEL3 seemed to work 
>just fine.  When we launch garp we get lots of error messages like this
>
>Warning:
>     Name: wpf_top
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\61' not supported in font.  Discarded.
>
>Warning:
>     Name: wpf_top
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\60' not supported in font.  Discarded.
>
>Warning:
>     Name: wpf_top
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\60' not supported in font.  Discarded.
>
>come to the screen (1026 lines of it to be exact :( ).  I assume that we 
>are missing some needed font?  Here are the relative RPMS we have 
>installed
>
>XFree86-twm-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-devel-4.3.0-62.EL
>XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL
>chkfontpath-1.9.10-1.RHEL
>ghostscript-fonts-5.50-9
>bitmap-fonts-0.3-2
>tetex-fonts-1.0.7-66
>urw-fonts-2.1-5.0
>
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>thanks,
>   daryl
>
>
>-- 
>/**
>  * Daryl Herzmann (address@hidden)
>  * Program Assistant -- Iowa Environmental Mesonet
>  * http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
>  */
>
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