<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40601 >
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Madeline Book <madeline.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What I suspect is that when the string is placed into the > entry box, gtk tries to convert it to an encoding other > than utf-8, or chops off the last character resulting > in the invalid utf-8. > > This could be proven if you turn off the "prompt for city > name" option and build a city with the Perpinya settler. > If the name is not garbled and the program does not > crash then we would know it is a problem with the string > being put into the entry, and hence a bug in the particular > gtk libraries used by the freeciv exe on windows. I turned off "prompt for city name." When building the settler, the game now simply crashes. So, the string is being corrupted before it is delivered to the dialog box. > You could also try inputting other valid utf-8 (e.g. my > sig) into the name suggestion box, the city rename popup, > or just the chat input line to see what it does. On linux > these all work fine, so they should too on windows. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 私のためにいい家を見つけてください。 Your .sig is truncated for length, but it inputs just fine. _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev