Re: xwininfo fails to convert window title string.

[mikolaj@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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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