Subject: Re: iconv problems after update?
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/16/2007 15:39:34
On 16/03/07, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/03/07, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> > I updated to current from yesterday morning (i386).  gnome hangs on
> > starting, but I can start some things manually (panel) but not others
> > (panel applets).  I'm getting messages like:
> >
> > Window manager warning: Log level 16: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
> >
> > The following command seems to work on a netbsd-4 system:
> >
> > iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 .sh_environment
>
>
> Same here - just finished build.sh release and blindly upgraded one of
> my systems, even if I've read that message before...

Funny enough, kde3 works. Seamonkey and firefox2 as well, although
they issue the same error messages.

>
> >
> > but on my current system produces
> >
> > iconv: iconv_open(iso-8859-1, utf-16): Invalid argument
> >
> > I'm updating to rebuild in case this is fixed, but it seems something
> > is borked in our in-tree iconv support.  My system does not have
> > pkgsrc iconv.
> >
> > --
> >     Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
> >
> Chavdar Ivanov
>