xwininfo fails to convert window title string.

[mikolaj at lavabit.com]

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 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.
>

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


Regards,

Mikolaj Paraniak