problem loading gnucash on colinux

[bn]

Right as usual, Derek!

The problem was a lack of matching fonts on my
x-server (xming).  I added optional packages on both
the linux and x-server sides, and gnucash runs like a
charm (for now, anyway).

Many thanks to you and all who posted suggestions. 
Now if I could only get back onto my home network,
which I've managed to screw up in the process of all
this, I could try importing some qif files...

Bahman

btw, I get an 'Error activating XKBD configuration' on
gnome startup, but this is happening to a lot of
gnomers according to google; many reports of it but no
definitive solution apparently.  If anyone knows how
to fix it, please let me know.

--- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media
> Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing
> Board  (SIPB)
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