[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 139, Issue 1

[Curt Mills]

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 <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 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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