On 17 June 2011 03:37, David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > ** > > On Wednesday 13 Sivan 5771 17:55:56 you wrote: > > > Since this is now a mixed-up system (until Sid's maintainers get stuff > > > together, completely, responsibly (posting defective /lib upgrades is > > > inexcusable because of the mess made for us Debian Sid users!), there may > > > still be problems, i.e. another package or two to downgrade. > > > > > > Problem 1: Trying a normal synaptic upgrade of some programs, I got > errors > > > that UTF8 could not be converted to latin1... and it aborted. Apt-get > does > > > work (in a non-X terminal) because I did that with the KDE stuff. So what > > > package needs be up/down-graded to fix the character conversions? > > > > > > Hint: reportbug-ng yields messages like: > > > QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv > failed > > > for BOM: Bad file descriptor QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using > > > Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: > > > using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed > > > So I do not know. Not having synaptic working is not nice but I guess there > are alternative including (yipes!) CLI. > > > Also, no man pages will display! > > > These errors are confusing, however. The iconv stuff comes from libc6. The > gconv conversion .so's are from testing to sid are ... identical. All of > them. > > > So what am I missing here? >
Going to the aptitude cli or ncurses interface might yield something profitable. There is an app or x-term that doesn't accept unicode gracefully, but I can't remember which. I'd check the /etc/apt/sources.list for discrepancies there also, if you've recently, or even not so recently jumped a distribution. The read-outs at the bottom of the aptitude ncurses interface are useful in resolving incompatibilities I've found. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion.
