GTK+ FAQ for Debian --------------------- Q. the following message is output. gtk+ doesn't provide it. Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: xxxxxxxx A1. In .gtkrc which is made by you or gtkrc that gtk+ has by default, when the fonts has no xxxxxxxx encoding, these warnings are output. so please check it before file a bug. 1. if you don't have strace, runs apt-get install strace. 2. strace |& grep gtkrc | grep open 3. if you get something, check those files. the fonts should be specified invalid font in these files. 4. check owner of these files. e.g. dpkg -S /etc/gtk/gtkrc.iso-8859-2 A2. you may specify invalid locale. GTK+ will find gtkrc as the following rules: 1. gtkrc.ll_cc.lowercasecodeset 2. gtkrc.ll_cc.normalizedcodeset 3. gtkrc.ll.lowercasecodeset 4. gtkrc.ll.normalizedcodeset 5. gtkrc.lowercasecodeset 6. gtkrc.normalizedcodeset 7. gtkrc.ll_cc 8. gtkrc.ll normalize the charset into a standard form, which has all '-' and '_' characters removed. Also GTK+ affect your locale. you can check that by the following code: #include #include #include int main (void) { setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ""); printf ("%s\n", nl_langinfo (CODESET)); return 0; } for example, your /etc/locale.gen has: es_ES ISO-8859-1 es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15 and if you set es_ES@euro to LC_CTYPE, result of that program should be: $ LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro ./test ISO-8859-15 GTK+ use this value for lowercasecodeset and normalizedcodeset. if that value is not expected by you, probably you was wrong locale settings.