Abiword wan't start (pango error?)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 11:36 +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hi Joe
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 09:56 +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I can't use abiword. When i try to start abiword (2.6.8_1) i get this
> >> error message:
> >>
> >> thomas at bert:~> abiword
> >>
> >> (process:53896): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >>
> >> (process:53896): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> >> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> >>
> >> (abiword:53896): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> > 
> > What locale are you using?
> > 
> >> (abiword:53896): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
> >> shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 11', text=''
> > 
> > Check your settings, and make sure you have the appropriate fonts
> > installed.  Version 2.6.8_1 added a dependency on deja-vu fonts.  The
> > default font is now DejaVu Sans which you should try to see if it looks
> > better.
> 
> 
> deja-vu fonts are installed. If i set setenv LC_ALL de_CH.ISO8859-15 in
> the console then it works form the shell.
> 
> My gnome environment should be set to english (US) keyboard and Swiss
> German language. I can set this in gdm. I don't know how i can check
> this settings after gnome is booted.
> 
> env doens't show me any LANG Variables.

It should.  I have my locale set from GDM to be US English, and my
environment looks like:

GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

What does your environment look like?

Joe

> 
> Regards,
> Thomas vogt
> 
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