Re: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Bradley F. Hartman" <hartman mcci-arl-va com> writes:
> 
> I downloaded the latest version of GTK along with the libraries on which
> gtk+-2.0.0 depends.  After resolving some minor configuration & installation
> problems, I was able to compile all libraries for Solaris 2.6.
> 
> I decided to run some of the demos from the gtk+-2.0.0/demos directory.
> Thus far, every demo I run reports the following error:
> 
> pixbuf-demo (pid:2435): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> 
> Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?
> 

The problem here is in g_iconv() in GLib. You might want to try
building GLib with libiconv instead of system iconv, if you used
system iconv.

Havoc