Re: prototype 41 and Red Hat 9

Hi Florin,

Yes, this is a known issue. YoSucker uses some local language characters when
parsing incomming messages and those characters are not UTF-8 encoded, that's
why you get the error. It is not easy to migrate YoSucker to UTF8 as the perl
support for UTF8 has not been completed yet and significant changes came only
in 5.8.x and lots of users use perl 5.0.x.

However I thought of fixing this problem by using the 'no utf8' directive in
YoSucker's code that should prevent it from outputing in utf8 at all. Perl
should take this directive into consideration when working with scripts but as
I see now, the LOCALE settings seem to have a precedence. Hm, I guess the
easiest solution is to run YoSucker from a script that sets the LANG value to
non-utf8 and then turns it back to UTF once YoSucker has finished.

Hope this brought a bit of light to the situation. Take care, Florin!

Vlad
-z3r0-



You wrote:
> Hya fellas,
> 
> Prototype 41 works great for me. However, since i'm using it on Linux
> Red Hat 9, i noticed a problem:
> 
> ############################################
> [florin@weiqi florin]$ /opt/YoSucker/bin/YoSucker
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
> immediately after start byte 0xfc) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1168.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x20,
> immediately after start byte 0xe8) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1170.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x20,
> immediately after start byte 0xe8) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1171.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1172.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1172.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1173.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1174.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1174.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1175.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
> immediately after start byte 0xfc) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1193.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x20,
> immediately after start byte 0xe8) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1195.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x20,
> immediately after start byte 0xe8) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1196.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1197.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1197.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1198.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1199.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x67,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1199.
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
> immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
> /opt/YoSucker/bin/../lib/sputnik.pm line 1200.
> Using LOCAL configuration.
>									       
  
> Caught a Ctrl-C signal. Exiting...
> ############################################
> 
> Those things happen as long as the LANG environment variable is set to
> the default value en_US.UTF-8
> If i set LANG to en_US, those warnings disappear and YoSucker works as
> smooth as ever.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 
> 
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