Abiword wan't start (pango error?)

[Thomas Vogt]

Hi Joe

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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?

LANG=de_CH.utf8
GDM_LANG=de_CH.utf8

My keyboard setting is us english. I know this because i use a keyboard
with us layout.

Looks like this doesn't work.

all:
ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/var/tmp/orbit-thomas
WINDOWID=18874410
DISPLAY=:0.0
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=4307
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-5Ddmjq/socket
LOGNAME=thomas
PWD=/home/thomas
HOME=/home/thomas
BLOCKSIZE=K
LANG=de_CH.utf8
GTK_RC_FILES=/usr/local/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/thomas/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/thomas/bin
XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-thomas-8igMUs/database
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-5Ddmjq/socket.ssh
SHELL=/bin/csh
TERM=xterm
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/tmp/dbus-FcFn2NlYx9,guid=79149802cc5063f436b09ea04a6d5eaa
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/var/tmp/seahorse-qkoA9u/S.gpg-agent:4334:1
USER=thomas
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
SESSION_MANAGER=local/bert.mlan.solnet.ch:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4314
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
ENV=/home/thomas/.shrc
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=12bfcd529d4ef6dd647cc3b14a062d13-1248681642.216432-1736425308
PAGER=more
GDM_LANG=de_CH.utf8
USERNAME=thomas
GDMSESSION=gnome
EDITOR=vi
HOSTTYPE=FreeBSD
VENDOR=intel
OSTYPE=FreeBSD
MACHTYPE=i386
SHLVL=1
GROUP=thomas
HOST=<privat>
REMOTEHOST=
CLICOLOR=

> 
> Joe
> 
>> Regards,
>> Thomas vogt
>>