I am having a very similar problem. Just installed the 2.0.3 version
and now all my serialisations complain.
libprotobuf ERROR ./google/protobuf/wire_format_inl.h:138] Encountered
string containing invalid UTF-8 data while parsing protocol buffer.
Strings must contain only UTF-8; use the 'bytes'
Hi,
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:47 AM, dan.schmidt.va...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having a very similar problem. Just installed the 2.0.3 version
and now all my serialisations complain.
libprotobuf ERROR ./google/protobuf/wire_format_inl.h:138] Encountered
string containing invalid UTF-8 data
Thanks very much for the answers guys. Most illustrative. The error
messages did in fact disappear with that simple change in all my proto
files.
Still, now that this error has shown in the code I have, I keep
wondering whether the fact that I'm serialising to string is
inefficient. What would
The serialized message is just an array of bytes. We use std::string as an
efficient container for these bytes, but it is still just storing bytes.
std::string, unlike Java's String, only contains bytes, not unicode
characters. So, there is no performance penalty. In fact, serializing to a
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:08 AM, edan edan...@gmail.com wrote:
I have some fields that may contain non-UTF8 data.
I understand that I just need to change their type from string to bytes
and it should just work, transparently.
yes. The're the same on the wire.
I have a few fields that
