Re: [Vala] Error with OptionEntry and unicode string.

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Walter Valenti <valenti walter gmail com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 11:14
> Subject: [Vala] Error with OptionEntry and unicode string.
>
> If i call "-n" with a ascii string, it works, but with a unicode 
> string
> I've got an error:
>
> ./par -n èè
>
> ** (par:25597): CRITICAL **: file
> /home/walter/pyLabrador/TRUNK/Vala/par.vala.c: line 66: uncaught error:
> Invalid byte sequence in conversion input (g_convert_error, 1)
>
> My LANG variable is: it_IT.UTF-8


Try putting:

Intl.setlocale();

at the beginning of your main function.

Or for older versions of Vala:


Intl.setlocale( LocaleCategory.ALL, "" )

This sets the locale to that on the machine, not the C language default,
which is US-ASCII.

Al