Re: 23.0.60; peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Today I downloaded emacs from the CVS tree. It seems to run fine
> with the -nw option. Otherwise, it dies on startup with the error
> message

> peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)

> Let me know if there is extra info that might help you.

Google will give you the appended answer (among other similar ones).


        Stefan


Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap...> writes:

> When starting Emacs with X11 (fetched a 1-2 hours ago, i.e. after
> the unicode merge), I get the error:
>
> | peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)

There is a missing comma between font specs in
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs:

--- /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs.~1~
+++ /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Emacs*Fontset-5:\
latin-iso8859-4:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-4,\
cyrillic-iso8859-5:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-5,\
greek-iso8859-7:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-7,\
- latin-iso8859-15:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-15 \
+ latin-iso8859-15:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-15,\
hebrew-iso8859-8:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-8,\
latin-iso8859-9:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-9,\
katakana-jisx0201:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-jisx0201.1976-0,\

Andreas.