My Buildroot linux was *not *build with libiconv, but instead with some sort of build-in "locale/i8n" support. This could be a possible cause. I'm now creating a new system wherein I reverse this (with libiconv, without the build-in stuff). I don't know why that ISO-8859-1 locale is generated, I left most Buildroot settings to default concerning locales.. I have no LANG setting. I'll report back today if I make it, or in a month ;-) as I'll be away from my keyboard for a while. Thanks, Sjoerd On 1 November 2017 at 10:50, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20171101/87766282/attachment.html>
