Error Message Opening GC

[Derek Atkins]

"Englisch, Volker (NIH/NCI)" <volker at mail.nih.gov> writes:

> I was wondering if anybody had seen the following error message before:
>
>      Error: gnc_mbstowcs: bad multi-byte conversion
>      Error: gnc_quickfill_insert: bad text conversion
>
> I am using GC 1.8.9 running on Fedora 2 and this message is being displayed every
> time I'm starting GC, opening an account, or enter a transaction into a register. 
> However, the error doesn't appear to effect the behavior of GC as far as I can
> tell.
>
> I was wondering if the problem - since I haven't seen any report of
> this in Bugzilla or the archives - might be related to some German
> characters in an account name.

most likely, yes.  These messages are due to non-ascii characters.

> By the way, I did not see this error message in GC 1.8.8.

Not surprising.  The gnome-1.4 non-ascii support is tenuous at best.
The g2 port should fix it all.

-derek
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