On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:28:01PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> WIth the ewmh patches, I get lots of these messages
>
> [FVWM][convert_charsets]: <<ERROR>> Error during conversion from
> ANSI_X3.4-1968 to UTF8
>
> Where exactly does this come from?
>
The error message mean that iconv is unable to convert a string
encoded using the ANSI_X3.4-1968 charset to a string encoded in UTF8.
However, your iconv support such conversions.
So maybe the error message come from the fact that some of your
window/icon/desktop titles are encoded using a different charset
than ANSI_X3.4-1968. It seems that ASCII = ANSI_X3.4-1968, do the
error happen only with window which contains no ASCII characters?
I am surprised that your charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 and not ISO-8859-1.
This charset is computed from your LC_TYPE (=de ??) variable. You can
override it by using the env variable CHARSET:
env CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 fvwm2
All the code about these can be found in ewmh_names.c.
The errors messages are in fact only warnings. The problem with
these warnings is that if you get one then you probably get
a lot.
May be what I can do is to limit the number of such warning
to 10 (with a special string for the last one)?
I can also add a compile time option or a fvwm2 command to
disable any UTF8 conversion.
Regards, Olivier.
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