On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:01:36PM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > 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.
Works fine for me. > > [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. Actually, at the moment I don't get the warning, although I didn't change anything. I've to find out where they are coming from before I can say anything. > 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). 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]
