On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 18:34 +0100, Sjoerd Venema wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting a lot of "Unable to convert error string to locale, filtering." > errors in my /var/log/messages. I think PulseAudio is sending them out as > UTF-8. > > However, my locale -a output contains UTF-8: > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 > > Is it a locale issue? If so, which locale should I add? > Or is it a different kind of problem? > > thanks, > Sjoerd Venema > > PS: I'm on a small Buildroot Busybox environment. The error message is printed when trying to convert a system error message string to UTF-8. One possible reason is that PulseAudio is built without iconv support, and a system error message is not valid UTF-8. What is LANG set to? If it's any variant of en_US, it seems unlikely that the strings would contain characters outside the safe ASCII set. If PulseAudio is built with iconv support, then there's apparently some problem with using iconv, but I don't have any guesses about what the exact problem might be. Is it intentional that you have the en_US ISO-8859-1 locale generated? I don't see the point of having anything else than UTF-8 locales. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
