Ubuntu
twm package

  1. Bug #1867561
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1867561

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J G Miller (jgmiller) wrote :

At one time in Bourne shell and derivatives

LANG=C twm &

may have worked but because of all the other LC variables which are now setup and which are not overriden by setting LANG=C, the work around for the bug in twm being unable to open the fixed font for UTF-8 and other encodings is to specify

LC_ALL=C twm &

You may even find that

LC_ALL=en twm &

where "en" is "English" also works (along with other two letter language variants) but anything more specific cauting UTF-8 enocding to be invoked such as en_GB or en_US will give the same error as "unable to open fontset fixed".