On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:09:18PM -0800, Elliot Sowadsky wrote:
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> ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/devel/snapshots/fvwm-snap-20020301.tar.gz
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>
> > I tried it....and icons started in the top-left corner instead of the
> > iconbox. I had to open them to get them to use the iconbox.
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> < I am not sure, but your icon box problem may be caused if you restarted
> < from 2.4.3 to 2.5.0. This may be a one time restart problem, it was fixed.
>
> Still bad.
>
> > [FVWM][convert_charsets]: <<WARNING>> conversion from `' to `UTF8' fail (init)
>
> No longer get this msg.
>
> Get this instead...
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> [FVWM][FInitCharset]: WARN -- Illegal charset (nl_langinfo and CHARSET env):
>
This message is a warning and should not cause big problems.
2.5.x has support for the EWMH specification and this spec
forces fvwm to convert strings encoded in your locale charset
into UTF-8 encoding (and conversely). Some small visible problem
may appear if you use KDE >= 2 and GNOME2 applications
(e.g., the window name that fvwm displays may be different than
the name that the KDE2 panel displays).
The message says that fvwm found that your locale charset is "".
You may try to set and export the CHARSET env variable to a
good value (before staring fvwm). But this may leads to others
warning messages. Unfortunately, this good value is system
dependent: it depends on your C library iconv implementation.
The good value is ISO-8859-1 with a gnu system (or if you use
gnu libiconv), I think that it is ISO8859-1 with aix, osf,
solaris and irix and I think it is iso88591 or iso81 with hpux!
Any way I hope that in the future fvwm will be able to always find
the good charset by itself without this CHARSET env variable (at
least if libiconv is installed). But maybe, if you have time you
can help me:
- what is your system?
- type "man iconv" and try to determine what is the good
iconv command line to convert from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8.
Finally, 2.5.0 is stable but some part of the EWMH support is
work in progress.
Olivier
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Received on Tue Mar 12 2002 - 01:53:36 GMT