Re: utf-8-strings

[Thomas Morley]

2012/7/9 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>     > 2012/7/8 David Nalesnik <address@hidden>:
>>     >> Hi Harm,
>>     >>
>>     >>>  I managed to drop about 300 lines, reducing
>>     >>> it to a quarter of the original.
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> Unfortunately, I'm getting "Invalid UTF-8 string..." warnings
>>     when I run
>>     >> your revised file.  (I don't with the original...)
>>     >>
>>     >> -David
>>     >
>>     > Hi David,
>>     >
>>     > are you sure?
>>     > I tested it with "2.15.39", "2.15.40" and "2.15.42" without any
>>     problem.
>>
>>
>>     I also had no problem, so I would assume that something went wrong
>>     with
>>     saving the attachment.
>>
>>
>> Ah, OK...  Unfortunately, I've have no idea what is happening to the
>> attachment, but I get the same errors whether I run the file with
>> LilyPondTool,. Frescobaldi, or on the command line.  Possibly it has
>> something to do with Windows XP; I don't know. The file works without
>> a hitch within LilyDev.
>
> Then it is no problem with the attachment, and indeed, the error message
> from LilyPond is
>
> "non-UTF-8 input"
>
> and not "Invalid UTF-8 string".  Likely a Pango error message.  So it is
> probable that the regexp "." matches just single bytes in your case.
> The interesting question is whether this is due to a different version
> of the regex matching library, or due to a different locale.
>
> Here is how the character set in my system declares itself:
>
> out/bin/lilypond scheme-sandbox
> GNU LilyPond 2.15.42
> Processing 
> `/usr/local/tmp/lilypond/out/share/lilypond/current/ly/scheme-sandbox.ly'
> Parsing...
> guile> (setlocale LC_CTYPE)
> "en_US.UTF-8"
> guile>
>
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>

An observation:

Setting
export LANG=en_US
and compiling the file gives:


GNU LilyPond 2.15.42
Processing `utf-8-strings-rev-03.ly'
Parsing...
(process:10496): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

(process:10496): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

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