Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence

[Andy Balaam]

FreeGuide chokes on invalid UTF-8 data in the incoming XMLTV stream. It should handle the error more gracefully, and continue reading the rest of the data.

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

There is an FAQ entry on how to work around this bug here: http://www.artificialworlds.net/freeguide/FAQ/InvalidUTF8

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

I have committed what I think is a fix for this problem to SVN. Please could someone test it out?

Instructions for building the SVN version are here:

http://www.artificialworlds.net/freeguide/Developers/BuildFromSVN

Let me know if they don't work.

Please choose UTF-8 as your encoding and see whether the listings download ok.

The fix is not yet finished because it filters out invalid UTF-8 characters even if you're not using UTF-8, but it should work if you are using UTF-8 I think.

Let me know!

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

I have now implemented only filtering when the encoding is utf-8.

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

I have submitted the final touches to the fix for this bug.

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

Fixed in 0.10.10.