Re: [bug-gtypist] Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

[Chris Jones]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 05:17:39AM EST, gevisz wrote:
> I have just installed gtypist v.2.9.5 on my Gentoo box and tried
> $ gtypist ru.typ
> gtypist: line 34: iconv() failed on 'B: Добро пожаловать!':
> Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
> You should probably use a UTF-8 locale for the selected lesson!
>  :
>  ?
> 
> What can I do about it?
> 
>  My
>  $ locale
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_COLLATE=C
>  LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
>  LC_ALL=

Doesn't happen on debian stable with same version of gtypist and same
locale.

| $ iconv --version
| 
|   iconv (Debian GLIBC 2.19-18+deb8u1) 2.19

Standalone iconv doesn't complain about the contents of the ru.typ file
either:

| $ iconv ru.typ -o /dev/null
| $ echo $?
| 0