[Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Mike Loebl wrote:

>   Thank you for the reply.  I'll have to double check the version when I get
> home, but I believe it's FC5.  It had been working great up until recently
> (I updated it to one of the Jun builds a couple weeks ago but not sure TBH
> when it started acting up.)  It's also just not the first character knocked
> off, but also seeing garbage characters as well where it would be some odd
> ASCII non-numeric code, several spaces and then the callsign followed by the
> rest of the message.  After looking at it a bit yesterday I noticed it was
> intermittent, as well as always on the igated messages and never on the
> incoming message.  In the mean time I rewrote my app to throw out
> bad/invalid callsigns.

Could it be a character-set issue?

Try this:

    export LANG=C
    telnet localhost 2023

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