Thank you and Shachar for the answers. It appears that actually a function in between changed the encoding to ASCII based rather kept it as UTF-8.
On Nov 30, 2007 2:14 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 29/11/2007, ik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I have this weird annoying bug on a GTK2 based program. > > When I use Hebrew everything displaied properly, but when I add the > > ampersand char (&) it will report a warning: > > > > Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() > > > > Does anyone have experience with this issue and knows what I'm missing ? > > > > Thanks, > > Ido > > The program may be storing it's info in XML files. Ampersand is an > illegal character in XML. In any case (XML or not) file a bug with the > software's author. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/
