Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
>> Then explain to me why it thinks that the attached diagram is UTF-8 and
>> misparses the latin1 chars.  Either the encoding I typed in is illegal,
>> in which case it should give at least a warning, or something deeper is
>> wrong.
> 
> With dia0.90+cvs, when you type ñ (\~n), dia doesn't display it an report
> this error on console:
> ** (dia:416): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()
> What is annoying is that Latin1 coincides almost exactly with Unicode
> 0080, so there should not be any problem.

Ah, unfortunately almost doesn't work for computers.  We don't yet have a
way to convert input from whatever encoding is used locally to UTF-8.  It's
the Next Big Thing.

-Lars

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