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twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"

While launching twm, it gives this error and exits to unix prompt:

twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"

I found a solution on http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1596636.html :

It was reported here for fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509639. The workaround is to execute it with a specific shell variable:

$ LANG=C
$ export LANG
twm &

twm launches fine after this.

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