xwininfo fails to convert window title string.

[Julien Cristau]

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 at 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.

Cheers,
Julien