[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#1824) Re: (PR#5449) blank lines in message window and output

["kersten@xxxxxxxxxx" <kersten@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, John Wheeler wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Sorry, but non-ASCII characters in message strings have worked correctly
before this 'empty message' syndrome. AFAICT the cause has to be
non-content related.

HTH,
-- 
Pieter J. Kersten