[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#5449) blank lines in message window and output

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[jdwheeler42 - Wed Aug 27 13:07:35 2003]:

> These are accompanied with "received bad string in packet (type X, len
> Y) from server" in the server window, and occur when non-ASCII
> characters are involved.  I suspect the real problem is external to
> freeciv, namely lack of support in some library or other for
> international characters.  I think the fix will be in the documentation
> and/or the dependency list.

The problem is in Freeciv - we don't explicitly handle any charsets
other than latin1, we just hope everything works out.  Sometimes it
doesn't.  See PR#1824.

jason