Re: Something-else-than-utf8 bug (was: Re: utf8 bug ?)

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 4, 2004, at 5:33 PM, Jan Hudec wrote:

> Now, the error obviously has something to do with the Gtk2 typemap.
> Without calling Gtk2::Label->new($string), there is no problem.

that's because the utf8 upgrade doesn't happen.  christian already 
pointed out that he can trigger this same message by using Encode to 
upgrade to utf8, completely independent of Gtk2(actually Glib)'s string 
typemap.


> But what is strange is, that it makes a difference whether $string 
> actually contains a non-ascii character.

that *is* odd.  it may be that sv_utf8_upgrade() doesn't work correctly 
if the string is plain ascii.


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