There's a problem in Buildroot's Parted package, and doesn't play well with libiconv. So can't test the solution. I'll park it until a next Buildroot release in which it is patched. I'll reach out in the future in case it's not resolved by libiconv. Thanks. On 1 November 2017 at 13:19, Sjoerd Venema <srg.venema at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/b7102553/attachment.html>
