[mythtv-users] suqare boxes for all the characters for mythfrontend

Paul Andreassen paulx at andreassen.com.au
Sat Aug 6 07:48:09 UTC 2005


On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 06:13 pm, Shiju Mathew wrote:
> I posted a similar mail today. This gives more info about  the
> problem. WHen I run mythfrontend all the charecters are printed as
> square box. My filesystem is a based on fedora core 4 with  a very few
> packages installed. I think some font pakages are missing . But i
> could not find out which are those font pakages that are missing to
> support the charectors of mythfrontend. Could someone help me to
> resolve this problem

X-windows should find a suitable font for you even if the requested one isn't 
installed.

My guess is you 'locale' isn't set correctly.  For me its (env | grep LANG):
LANG=en_AU
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_US:en_GB:en

Try something simple like:
export LANG=en_US
export LANGUAGE=en_US:en
mythfrontend

Paul
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