FC5 xdvi Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

[rg_linux1]

I installed 2 weeks ago FC5 on an AMD64 3700 . I installed the additional package Latex and when comes the time to view a DVI file Latex produces, xdvi gives the following message:

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

but is able to show the DVI file which I can print: no problem there.

Can someone indicate to me a way such that xdvi does not give that message ?
Here is more information about the version of xdvi that I have with FC5:
[]$ xdvi -v
xdvik version 22.84.9 (@(#)Motif Version 2.3.0, runtime version 2.3)
Libraries: kpathsea version 3.5.4, T1lib version 5.0.1

Thanks

Rene

[Craig Pemberton]

If it works for you I wouldn't worry about it.

Warnings tend to be non-critical and are ideally delt with by the maintainers in time.
Errors are critical and then you should start to worry.

[rg_linux1]

OK thanks I will follow your advice

[Multikulti555]

Seven years later... the same problem on Fedora 18 64 bit (TeXLive 2012 local installation).

I'm new to Fedora, so I can propose only a dirty hack (it works, so what?).

The trick: set LANG to C before starting xdvi. In a terminal:

$LANG=C xdvi file.dvi

You possibly open DVI files per mouse click, so that the solution above is inconvenient, in a sense.

So search for the file named xdvi. It is actually a shell script, so you can edit it with a text editor. If your TeXLive is installed globally, somewhere under /usr, you will need root rightes to edit this file (just start your text editor from the terminal as superuser).

Open the file xdvi and add:

export LANG=C

before the ultimate line, so that the two last lines of xdvi file look like this:

export LANG=C
exec xdvi-xaw $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"}

Save the file and you are done.

If this should not help, you can try to install additional x11-fonts:

# yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi