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From: [e-mail] (Chiaki Ishikawa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,alt.toolkits.xview,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: I18N Xview font problem. Can't display on other machine?
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Date: 18 Nov 92 14:48:10 GMT
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Hello. I am using Sun OpenWindows v2 and I18N XView (read Japanese Xview).

I have compiled and linked an application on Sparcstation.  Now I am
trying to redirect the display of the program on other machines (Sun3,
Decstation), but failed to do so.  The program shows many error
messages concerning "Cannot load font" and eventually dumps core.

Surprisingly, the font name printed in the error messages from XView
library should match to an existing font on the X11 servers on the
other machines.  (I checked the available fonts on different server by
using xlsfonts command.)

The program runs on Sparcstation just fine as long as the display is
done on the machine locally.

The program calls xv_init in main in the follow manner.
(Note some I18N and localization stuff.)

    xv_init(
        XV_USE_LOCALE, TRUE,
        XV_LC_BASIC_LOCALE, "japanese",
    /****    XV_LC_INPUT_LANG, "japanese",
        XV_LC_DISPLAY_LANG, "japanese", ****/
        XV_INIT_ARGC_PTR_ARGV,&argc,argv,
        NULL);

Eventually, something like the following is done to look for font.
But, I wonder if this is where the problem lies.  (The messages I show
later seem to come from elsewhere in the XView library, but I am not
sure.)

      deffont=xv_find(NULL,FONT,
        FONT_FAMILY,FONT_FAMILY_DEFAULT_FIXEDWIDTH,
        FONT_STYLE,FONT_STYLE_BOLD,
    /* from p.12 of JLE SunView to I18N XView (in Japanese) */
            FONT_LOCALE, "japanese",
      0);

[] When the display is directed to a Sun3 (MIT X11R3 or R4), and the
program running on Sparcstation shows this output.
    ...
XView warning: Cannot load font set '-*-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)
XView warning: Unable to open default font set
    ...
    Several similar messages and many error messages due to the
    missing fonts.
    ...
signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address) in XwcTextExtents at 0xf76e3cf0
XwcTextExtents+0x18:    ld    [%l5 + 52], %o0
(dbx) where
XwcTextExtents() at 0xf76e3cf0
xv_pf_textwidth_wc() at 0xf76cdfc0
panel_make_image() at 0xf76629c0
item_set_generic() at 0xf76468f0
item_set_avlist() at 0xf764599c
xv_set_pkg_avlist() at 0xf76107e0
xv_set_avlist() at 0xf76108b8
xv_create_avlist() at 0xf76106a8
xv_create() at 0xf7610514
    ...
(dbx) quit

[] This is a partial listing of xlsfonts output on the Sun3:

-b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
    ...
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-p-58-iso8859-1
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-11-80-100-100-p-63-iso8859-1
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-p-71-iso8859-1
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-14-100-100-100-p-80-iso8859-1
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-14-140-75-75-p-81-iso8859-1
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-17-120-100-100-p-96-iso8859-1 <---******
    ... rest omitted ...

I would think that the font marked by "<---******" match the requested
font name.

[] When I redirected the output to DECstation 5200 (DEC X11R4-based
server), similar error occurs.  xlsfonts run against DECstation server
also shows a font name that would match the missing font.

BTW, when I ran xlsfonts to the X11/NeWS server on the Sparcstation, I
saw "0"s in the font name fields such as width field.  Is this the
right behavior?  I was quite surprised that OpenWindow X11/NeWS
handles fonts in a very different manner. There weren't even fonts.dir
and fonts.alias?

[] Now the main question is:

    Has anyone seen similar problem before? Is there a workaround?

Does I18N XView library permit the program to run and display only on
X11/NeWS server?  (Or am I using outdated library? SunOS
4.1.1-JLE1.1.1.)

Please reply by e-mail. I will post a summary.

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