I’m using 64 bit 11.0 with LANG=fr-FR.UTF-8. When I try to enter text in an xfig drawing I get the message :
Can’t find --times-medium-r-normal–13------ISO8859-*, using 6x13
Using xfig’s font selection to call for some other font doesn’t help: xfig still says “can’t find -*-…”.
How can I get xfig to see the 11.0 fonts?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Roger
Firstly xfig uses Latin-1 rather than UTF. Secondly, according to the help file, it appears to need X11R6 resources to support internationalisation. (I don’t have any of the fonts you mention on my system). Thirdly, AFAIK it does not use the system fonts but its own fonts.
It is possible to enter most Western European characters from the keyboard simply by changing the keyboard layout except where they involve deadkeys which xfig does not recognise. Pressing what is normally a deadkey will produce the accent, e.g circumflex or diaeresis in French. Where I need these accents, I create them separately and move them over the character - a bit tedious but it works.
Note that you cannot change layout while entering a string; this causes odd effects in xfig.
Just spotted in the Help under ‘Drawing objects’ is the list of composable Latin-1 characters which may suit your needs better.