From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: The following errors display when loading gnumeric, and the fonts look really ugly compared with Phoenix's version. The font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-condensed-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") The font "-*-nimbus sans-regular-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") The font "-*-helvetica-bold-r-condensed-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") The font "-*-helvetica-medium-o-condensed-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") The font "-*-nimbus sans-regular-i-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") The font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-condensed-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") The font "-*-nimbus sans-regular-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gnumeric Actual Results: bad fonts Expected Results: good fonts Additional info:
Try running in en_US.ISO-8859-1
how do I do that?
"LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 gnumeric"
This fixes the warnings, but does not fix the font ugliness.
Are the menu/toolbar fonts ugly or just in the spreadsheet area?
just the spreadsheet area.
Owen says "gnumeric fonts are so deeply hosed in 1.0.x that there is no chance of fixage until we move to the GTK 2 based gnumeric" the problem here is apparently selecting the nearest thing to helvetica in our default font (nimbus), and nimbus is ugly. In any case, gtk 2 gnumeric will fix.