Re: set_markup() UTF-8 encoding problems

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 13:29 -0500, John Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an app that opens a text file with content marked up with
> Pango, then puts that text in a label with set_markup.
> 
> My problem is that sometime it errors out with:
> Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing
> markup: Error on line 11 char 2: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text - not
> valid '[markup text here]'.
> 
> The weird thing is it isn't consistent. The same thing tried a few
> times in a row will yield mostly successful, with an error every 5 or
> so tries, though the interval is not consistent either.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

Could you provide a little test case in bugzilla, please? Maybe
something in gtkmm is giving GTK+ a number of characters instead of a
number of bytes.

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