Re: Pango warning: "Invalid UTF-8 string"

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com> writes:

> whenever I try to display strings in a TreeView which have German
> umlauts in it, they aren't rendered and I get a warning:
>
> (duality.elf:4613): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid 
> UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
>
> The strings I display are std::stringS, but I also tried to
> construct Glib::ustringS from them without luck.
>
> Any idea how I can get rid of these errors?

Are you *sure* the string is UTF-8, and that the umlaut is not an
8-bit Latin (ISO-8859-n) character?  Where is the umlaut coming from?
The command-line, a file, the program source?  Are you totally sure of
its encoding?


Regards,
Roger

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