On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:04:47AM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > 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 couldn't narrow it down to a specific window title yet. It may well be caused by titles in netscape or mozilla. > 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. Recently, I noticed an error message about LC_CTYPE or LANG not being set correctly. I don't have the message handy right now. $ echo $LC_CTYPE de_DE $ echo $LANG en_US The message obviously comes from one of the setlocale() calls in ewmh_names.c and fvwm.c (with multibyte support). I tried all the spellings "de_De", "De_De" and "De_DE", but the message does not go away. The only way to get rid of it was to set LANG=C (without modifying LC_CTYPE). Of course this is no solution for people who set LANG any other language than English. > 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. Exactly. > 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. Lets see what can be done about my warnings before deciding what to do. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072 Tuebingen fon: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-0, fax: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-20 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
