[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 139, Issue 1

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:29:40AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 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 <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 13:57:12 -0300
> > mario wolcoff <lu2hammario at gmail.com> 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
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> 
> 
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