Thanks Tom. Correct as always. I'm pretty sure there was never any work put in to process UTF-8 strings. We only process ASCII character set in Xastir. No multi-byte, no extended ASCII.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:29:40AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> It could be the LANG environment variable setting. They mess up >> storage and retrieval of the config information, including lat/long of >> the station. Must be either "C" or "en_US" to work properly. It can >> be set just for the one shell before starting up Xastir. > > Because of the problem of handling config file properly when LANG was not C or > en_US, setlocale calls were added to Xastir's start-up code back in 2010. It > no longer matters what LANG is set to from the shell that starts Xastir, as > Xastir will reset it for its own use before trying to read the config file. > In fact, I found that setting LANG=C in the Xastir launcher icon on my Ubuntu > laptop actually broke some dialog boxes after a few uses (reported a few > months back). > > But there may be other language-related issues at play. Could there be UTF-8 > characters in those packets that are getting munged? While APRS itself is > UTF-8 clean, I don't think any effort has been put into making sure Xastir > works properly with embedded UTF-8 characters. > >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 13:57:12 -0300 >> > mario wolcoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> hello thank you for answering I write in English translator >> >> is Xastir is running properly an I-gate lu4hh and from the same genus >> >> five objects of local repeaters >> >> everything is fine, except that the comment text objects are deleted >> >> or changed character >> >> It occurs to you that may be misconfigured >> >> thank you very much Mario >> >> >> >> LU2HAM >> >> Mario Wolcoff >> > >> > Looking for raw data on aprs.fi, I find that very few of your packets >> > are "good". Most (48 out of 50) are "unsupported packet format". >> > The second item is that a very large number of packets are being >> > broadcast. Most of the bad packets have you at 90 degrees north. >> > >> > >> > Buscando datos en bruto en aprs.fi, encuentro muy pocos de sus paquetes >> > son "buenos". La mayor??a (48 de 50) son "formato del paquete no >> > compatible". El segundo elemento es que un n??mero muy grande de >> > paquetes est?? siendo difusi??n. La mayor??a de los paquetes malas tendr?? >> > en 90 grados al norte. >> > >> > >> > sample >> > muestra >> > >> > 2015-08-10 07:27:23 AEST: LU4HH>APX200,TCPIP*,qAC,SIXTH:)tt !9000.00N >> > [Unsupported packet format] 2015-08-10 07:27:23 AEST: >> > LU4HH>APX200,TCPIP*,qAC,SIXTH:)tti!9000.00N [Unsupported packet format] >> > LU4HH>2015-08-10 07:27:40 AEST: LU4HH>APX200,TCPIP*,qAC,SIXTH:;sede RCC >> > LU4HH>*092127z3123.15S/06412.44WySede Rado a >> > 2015-08-10 07:27:47 AEST: LU4HH>APX200,TCPIP*,qAC,THIRD:;tess8 >> > *092127z2844.36S/06114.73W:Pmin10,Pmax50,mim 2015-08-10 07:27:57 AEST: >> > LU4HH>APX200,TCPIP*,qAC,SIXTH:)) !9000.00N [Unsupported packet format] >> > LU4HH>2015-08-10 07:27:57 AEST: >> > LU4HH>LU4HH>APX200,TCPIP*,qAC,SIXTH:))t !9000.00N [Unsupported packet >> > LU4HH>LU4HH>format] >> > >> > >> > I hope this gives enough information for our experts to proceed with >> > giving advice. >> > >> > >> > Espero que esto le da suficiente informaci??n para que nuestros expertos >> > proceder a dar consejos. >> > >> > >> > Liz VK2XSE >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Xastir mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> >> >> >> -- >> Curt, WE7U >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Curt, WE7U _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
