Ah so it is the libraries fault that it crashes when you pass it an unterminated string? Cool. --Larry On Wed, 2001-08-29 at 07:58, Kelly Martin wrote: > On 29 Aug 2001 14:44:49 +0200, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> said: > > >>Has this been reported as a bug in GTK? > > >Huh? It's not a bug, it's a feature. All strings in GTK+-2.0 are > >UTF-8 encoded and the application has to assure that only valid UTF-8 > >strings end up at the toolkit level. This is the only reasonable > >solution to the encoding mess and it works just perfect. It allows > >for example to have different languages with different "native" > >encodings in the same widget. Why do you consider this a bug? > > In my opinion, a library which crashes when fed inappropriate external > data is buggy by definition. > > Kelly