Dear all,<div><br></div><div>As an interim solution, Yi Zhang has suggested to fall-back to 2009-02-22 build.</div><div><br></div><div>Possibly it's because some of our ubuntu builds included the adobe font which Allegro can fallback to, so it works and some of the machines without the adobe font fall-back into "asian" character font.</div> <div><br></div><div>I've tried a fresh installation with the latest installation script and, for my own machine, when loading lkb it manage to fall back to several fonts and ultimately ends at: </div> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Loading lkb ends with the following warning (the full error can be viewed at <a href="http://shrib.com/Tf3D6Ja1">http://shrib.com/Tf3D6Ja1</a>): </div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"> <div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">Warning: Fallback font</font></div></div> <div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific,</font></div></div><div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> for character set 32, matches with XListFonts,</font></div> </div><div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">but is not loadable by XLoadFont or XQueryFont. Something may be wrong</font></div></div><div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"> with the X font</font></div> </div><div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">setup.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>but up till now all the grammars load fine and the "View" and "Parse" functions are also working fine.</div> <div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>liling</div> <div><br></div><div><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Yi Zhang</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yzhang@coli.uni-sb.de" target="_blank">yzhang@coli.uni-sb.de</a>></span><br> Date: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM<br>Subject: LKB GUI font issue</div><div><br></div><div><span>i just tested latest build of lkb with the latest version of Ubuntu (12), and also ran into the same font problem (asian fonts in the menu). it seems that the fallback fonts were not set properly.</span><br> <br><span>so i went back to use previous builds of lkb, and found that "builds/2009-02-22" works fine for me. just change the following line in the installation script from</span><br><br> <span>build="latest"</span><br><br><span> to</span><br><br><span>build="builds/2009-0222"</span><br><br><span>or use the install-old script from </span><a href="http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~yzhang/ge/install-old" target="_blank">http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~yzhang/ge/install-old</a><br> <br><span>i realize that quite a few people in our class are suffering from this issue right now. please forward to those who are not on the list but have the same issue. maybe this can serve as an interim solution, until a new build of lkb becomes available.</span><br> <br><span>cheers,</span><br><span>yi</span><br><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ann Copestake<br> <<a href="mailto:Ann.Copestake@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ann.Copestake@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br> > Problem 2<br> > M-x lkb started the lkb system but the english words that are suppposedly on the lkbtop interface became some unknown "asian" character.<br> <br> I had a similar problem when trying to do an LKB installation on<br> Knoppix, but it went away when I switched to Ubuntu, oddly enough. My<br> guess is there's some specific font package causing problems, but I<br> haven't been able to figure out which one. If you have two machines<br> with the same Ubuntu release, one of which works and the other of<br> which doesn't, it would be interesting to see the output of "dpkg<br> --get-selections" for both machines.<br> <br> --<br> David Brodbeck<br> System Administrator,?Linguistics<br> University of Washington<br> <br> <br> <br> ------------------------------<br> <br> Message: 3<br> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:55:53 +0200<br> From: Stephan Oepen <<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no" target="_blank">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>><br> To: David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:brodbd@uw.edu" target="_blank">brodbd@uw.edu</a>><br> Cc: <a href="mailto:alvations@gmail.com" target="_blank">alvations@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:developers@delph-in.net" target="_blank">developers@delph-in.net</a><br> Subject: Re: [developers] forwarding request for help (bounce from lkb<br> list)<br> Message-ID:<br> <CA+_Fm6+WGPY-wkjHXmW3ctVSf=7dp=<a href="mailto:0E1tN-4sbSf4XdfAdE1Q@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">0E1tN-4sbSf4XdfAdE1Q@mail.gmail.com</a>><br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br> <br> g'day,<br> <br> weird asian characters in LKB windows, i think,<br> can be caused by missing Xorg bitmap fonts (to<br> pick up newly installed fonts, one may have to<br> restart the X server).<br> <br> further, the problem of the LKB binaries just not<br> starting up could be related to a lack of 32-bit<br> compatibility libraries. comparing the lists of<br> installed packages across machines that do<br> or don't work should be illuminating, indeed.<br> <br> best, oe<br> <br> <br> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:10 PM, David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:brodbd@uw.edu" target="_blank">brodbd@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br> > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ann Copestake<br> > <<a href="mailto:Ann.Copestake@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ann.Copestake@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br> >> Problem 2<br> >> M-x lkb started the lkb system but the english words that are suppposedly on the lkbtop interface became some unknown "asian" character.<br> ><br> > I had a similar problem when trying to do an LKB installation on<br> > Knoppix, but it went away when I switched to Ubuntu, oddly enough. ?My<br> > guess is there's some specific font package causing problems, but I<br> > haven't been able to figure out which one. ?If you have two machines<br> > with the same Ubuntu release, one of which works and the other of<br> > which doesn't, it would be interesting to see the output of "dpkg<br> > --get-selections" for both machines.<br> ><br> > --<br> > David Brodbeck<br> > System Administrator,?Linguistics<br> > University of Washington<br> <br> <br> <br> ------------------------------<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> developers mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:developers@delph-in.net" target="_blank">developers@delph-in.net</a><br> <a href="http://lists.delph-in.net/mailman/listinfo/developers" target="_blank">http://lists.delph-in.net/mailman/listinfo/developers</a><br> <br> <br> End of developers Digest, Vol 85, Issue 1<br> *****************************************<br> </blockquote></div><br></div>