On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 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 make some test with an ASCII charset I get error messages
whenever a window title have non ascii char as é è à ...etc.
> [snip]
>
> > 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.
>
I am sure that starting fvwm2 as
env CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 fvwm2
will remove most(all?) of your warnings.
What you can do is to do so that your C lib consider that
your charset is not ASCII (this charset is not useful at
all, I think it is better to use a super set of ASCII in
any case). I do not now how to do this. To overcome this
we can add a fvwm2 command as "Charset charset" or even a
style which will allow to get window title in Japanese,
Russian, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese ...etc on the
same desktop (with mulibyte enabled).
Olivier
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