Font anomaly in OpenBSD with TWM

cpcnw

As pictured below (complete menu is on Arch) the line drawing characters are missing?

Font used
MenuFont "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-180-----iso8859-1"

Lines drawn using below
"—————" f.nop
as well as chevrons drawn using
"››" as compared to >>

Seems those chars are missing somehow from the OpenBSD version of the font?
(my wild guess)

Font is listed in xfontsel

Any ideas / things to test? Is there anything similar winblows 'charmap' to view all chars?

Tia!

Jay

cpcnw what happens if you change menu fonts with other available fonts ?

jmcunx

cpcnw

I tested your fonts and I think the issue is '180' (as Jay said above), with this font I get the dashes (-) and underlines (_), hard for me to see what you want in the print. I would try and replace the "180" with "120" or a "*".

"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"

Plus my locale is set to "en_US", are you using a UTF-8 locale ?

Maybe use "xfontsel -print", then "select" to print the preferred font.

cpcnw

Oddly the following shows Dejavu Sans-12 at the top?

xfd -fa -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-180-----iso8859-1

Jay

Also can you try these ?

MenuFont "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-----*-iso10646-1"

MenuFont "--helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-------"

cpcnw

Jay it changes the font a little but the strange characters are still there?

Jay

cpcnw I think you need to change "====" f.nop

cpcnw

Jay why? It displays correctly under Arch. There has to be a reason for that...

Jay

cpcnw I think on Arch System-wide locale settings or application toolkits on Arch might handle the missing characters differently, perhaps falling back to another font seamlessly.

cpcnw

jmcunx Thanks for the reply. Copy pasting to the forum removed my * stars. I also did try changing point sizes etc - at one point I just adobe helveitca and the rest as stars. I will try adjusting my local which I think is currently uk

cpcnw

OK so changing the locale makes a difference. Currently with the odd characters it is US ASCII

If I change to en_US or UK UTF-8 it does change the dashed line characters but does not make a neat straight line as in first screenshot. Plus on exiting X there's complaints about fonts etc

Going to boot into Arch and see if there any clues...

cpcnw

BINGO!!!

exporting

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Has sorted it (not sure which one) - now I just need to make permanent!

Thanks for replies!