Hi, updating XFree86 in my SuSE 8.0 (it has all updates) from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.2.0-SuSE/suse80 screwed up something im my locale and font settings: I get the following error messages when starting gvim: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers E234: Unknown fontset: -*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-* E234: Unknown fontset: -*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-* E234: Unknown fontset: -*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-* Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers E234: Unknown fontset: -*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-* I get similar error messages with other programs, e.g. xfig: Warning: Cannot convert string "-URW-Nimbus Roman No9 L-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-kochi-mincho-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0,-baekmukttf-batang-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0,-*-times-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*--34-*" to type FontSet Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Cannot convert string "-URW-Nimbus Roman No9 L-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-kochi-mincho-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0,-baekmukttf-batang-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0,-*-times-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Cannot convert string "-URW-Nimbus Roman No9 L-bold-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-kochi-gothic-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0,-baekmukttf-dotum-medium-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0,-*-times-bold-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-bold-r-normal--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Dr. Helge Knüttel, University Library of Regensburg