[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10027) (civclient:12460): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktextbuffer.c: line 548: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10027 >

Brett Albertson wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10027 >
> 
> I'm getting the following message:
> 
> (civclient:12460): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktextbuffer.c: line 548:
> assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
> 
> This is a GTK2 client on Solaris with the current CVS code.  I wasn't
> getting this message using the CVS code from 2 days ago.

First, make sure you have updated code and rerun autogen.sh.

Next...

Do you have iconv installed?

What is the result of "cat config.h|grep ICONV"?

What is the result of "echo $LANG" and "locale"?

If you enable this code in utility/fciconv.c:

   #ifdef DEBUG
     /* FIXME: Remove this output when this code has stabilized. */
     fprintf(stderr, "Encodings: Data=%s, Local=%s, Internal=%s\n",
               data_encoding, local_encoding, internal_encoding);
   #endif

what does it output (for server and client)?

Finally, are you sure you don't have an old installation lying around 
whose data is being used?  I don't know exactly in what order the server 
searches for ruleset files, but if it's using an old nation ruleset this 
would cause the above error.

(These same instructions apply to anyone else who is getting charset 
problems.)

jason