Re: Newbie question

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Claus Hetzer <chetzer isla hawaii edu> writes:

> I have just gotted GTK+ and am trying to run the "Hello World" program
> presented in the tutorial.  It compiles just fine (using gcc and the
> command-line parameters as specified) and the window appears when I run
> the executable, but a series of identical error messages are output to
> the console:
> 
> ** (helloworld:28337): WARNING **: Could not load converter from EUC-KR
> to UTF-8
> 
> Is this something that was done wrong in the compilation, or is there
> another compiler option that I have to set?  I am using the latest
> version of GTK+ and gcc version 2.95.2 on Solaris 8.

it appears you are using a locale setting that uses EUC-KR as encoding
and libiconv doesn't seem able to convert that to UTF-8. You can get
around this problem by changing to a UTF-8 locale.


Salut, Sven