On 17 June 2011 03:37, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote:
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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.
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