problem loading gnucash on colinux

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

bn <aval57 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Thanks Derek, got it now.  The problem turns out to
> be:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> y at colinux:~$ gnucash
> The font
> "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> does not support all the required character sets for
> the current locale
> "LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
> Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot
> load fallback font:
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I used 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' in the root console
> to generate en_US ISO-8859-1, but still get the same
> error inside my user environment in gnome.  Do I need
> to set the user locale to this separately, and if so,
> how?  Don't quite know my way around yet.
>
> Bahman

This isn't a locale issue, it's a font issue.  You don't have
the appropriate font(s) installed.  Unfortunately I don't know
what you need specifically..

-derek

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