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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: xwininfo fails to convert window title string.
From:       mikolaj () lavabit ! com
Date:       2012-04-14 21:15:06
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.00.1204142310591.13359 () eagle ! air
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 17:22:28 +0200, mikolaj wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I encountered a problem which makes it impossible to use some
>> programs that depend on an ability to retrieve window title:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> mikolaj@xxx ~ $ xwininfo
>>
>> xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
>>           would like information by clicking the
>>           mouse in that window.
>>
>> xwininfo: Window id: 0x2400068 " (failure in conversion from
>> UTF8_STRING to ANSI_X3.4-1968)"
>>
> Try running xwininfo in a UTF8-capable locale.  "C" isn't going to do
> it.
>

You are right, somehow LANG was not set at all upon login. Thanks.


Regards,

Mikolaj Paraniak


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