Re: Gnumeric 1.0.13

[John McNamara <jmcnamara cpan org>]

At 10:56 09/04/03 -0400, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:

> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected
> non-continuation byte 0xc9,
> immediately after start byte 0xcb) in pattern match (m//) at
> ./xml-i18n-merge line 321, <PO_FILE> line 108644.
>
> ...
>
>
> Getting tons of these while building rpm on Redhat 9.


"Malformed UTF-8 character (%s)" is a perl warning
message.

It has many valid sources but in the case of RH9 it is probably caused by
the default LANG setting having a reference to UTF-8. Something like
this:

    $ echo $LANG
    en_US.UTF-8

RH 8 and 9 use perl 5.8.0 which responds to directives in the locale.
However, since the target programs probably don't contain or aren't
processing Unicode data you get these warnings.

Unless it has some other undesired side-effect the workaround is to set
the LANG to a non UTF setting: 

    $ export LANG=en_US


John.
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