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bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

character set conversion warnings in Gtk apps

Recently I noticed that various Gtk applications throw this warning (actually, many times, pretty much every time something in the window needs updating) when running them:

(gimp:5803): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
(gvim:5697): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Could not open converter from 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1'

These are examples with gimp and gvim, but the same goes for alunn, rox, firefox, gtk-chtheme, ...
I tried to search various forums and google, but nobody seems to address this issue, and if, then it's along the lines "recompile everything and start with gtk2". That's not satisfactory for me. Especially, since some apps (like gimp) sometimes crash with this error.
Some info: I run with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and LANG=en_US.UTF-8, and locales defined in locale.gen include en_US.UTF-8 and en_US ISO-8859-1, and I did generate the locales (locale-gen).

Any help/ideas about what to do with this are appreciated.

EDIT: couldn't it be a problem with the recent update of glibc (on 02/15)?

Last edited by bender02 (2007-02-23 05:49:44)

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: character set conversion warnings in Gtk apps

Well, talking to myself here - I just wanted to say that recent upgrade to glibc-2.5-5 seems to have solved the issue.