Re: [Xlog-discussion] xlog 0.8 and 0.9 not compatible (UTF-8)

[Joop Stakenborg]

Alexandru Csete wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encountered a little problem during the transition from version 0.8 to
> 0.9. If the log (saved with xlog 0.8) contains special/national
> characters xlog 0.9 can not render the text in that field, because gtk2
> expects UTF-8 encoded characters. It also triggers a warning:
>
> ** (xlog:2077): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()
>
> A similar problem arises in the opposite case (reading xlog-0.9 files
> with xlog-0.8) in that xlog-0.8 will display nonsense instead of the
> special characters.
>
> The two version of xlog are thus incompatible with each other and could
> cause trouble for people having many national characters in their logs
> (fortunately I wasn't one of them ;-).

Hi Alex,

thanks for sharing your observations. This sounds rather annoying and I 
really don't know what to do about it now :-(

However, I will investigate. Maybe there is a solution and hopefully I 
can find one for version 0.9.

> Cheers,
> Alex OZ9AEC

Thanks,
Joop PA4TU