when I use ncview under Plasma wayland, I get this error:
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
I tried to install xorg-fonts-misc as suggested in the aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncview) but it didn’t fix anything even after a reboot. When I use the X11 Plasma DE everything works, but I would like to be able to use ncview with wayland as well.
My ncview was working on arch linux and using xwayland fine for about two months. Today I updated my system and am now getting the same error. I already had xorg-fonts-misc installed. Have you found any other solution? This is specifically the error I get,
Warning: Cannot convert string “--lucida-bold-r---14-------” to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
This isn’t a proper fix but to avoid the program aborting I believe having any ISO8859 font available will work. In my case, I got the same error as dbuhl8 with the lucida-bold conversion but without the “Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font” line as it managed to find a font. The problem is that the font it found seems to be some gothic font I happened to have and it made the program barely legible…