960775 – Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

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Bug 960775 - Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

Summary: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	libX11
Sub Component:
Version:	6.4
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Priority:	unspecified
Severity:	low
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Adam Jackson
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
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TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2013-05-07 23:36 UTC by John Newbigin
Modified:	2019-09-26 14:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2017-12-06 11:51:31 UTC
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Description John Newbigin 2013-05-07 23:36:20 UTC

Description of problem:
When using LANG=en_US.UTF-8, xload prints warning messages:
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libX11-common-1.5.0-4.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
2. xload

  
Actual results:
Warnings are printed. xload runs and does displays a caption.

Expected results:
No warnings are printed.

Also happens with other X11 programs (eg: xfontsel), and in other UTF-8 locales eg. LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8


Additional info:
Workaround 1:
Use a different locale
LANG=C xload

Workaround 2:
Edit /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE and comment out
fs6    {
       charset {
               name    KOI8-R:GR
       }
       font    {
               primary KOI8-R:GR
       }
}

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-13 23:38:37 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 David Stratman 2015-06-10 21:46:16 UTC

I am still seeing this in RHEL 6.6 - are we still considering an implementation of this to deal with the warning messages?

(In reply to RHEL Product and Program Management from comment #1)
> This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
> inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
> Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
> in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
> request at this time.
> 
> Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
> propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 4 Ulrich Sibiller 2015-07-13 17:06:57 UTC

I am seeing this on 6.6, too.

Also, the following RH documentation states that there should be KOI8 packages for RHEL6 (which I suspect could solve the problem) but I cannot find them:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.5_Technical_Notes/

So where are they?

Comment 5 Ulrich Sibiller 2016-02-03 10:45:24 UTC

Any updates on this?

Comment 6 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 11:51:31 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here:

http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle

This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL:

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