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Title: GPA Errors UTF Help Please
Post by: Purplesky on July 11, 2012, 04:45 pm
Hey, can anyone help me please recently i have been getting the odd error messages in gpa on linux liberte the last one said:

GPA Error
Error in operation Result:
No valid UTF-8 at position 52.

Guessing its like when you put incorrect coding into a php file and it tells you what line its on but how do i fix it? Ive tryed searching around but no luck...
Title: Re: GPA Errors UTF Help Please
Post by: Sammler on July 12, 2012, 01:19 am
No valid UTF-8 at position 52.


looks like some encoding error, did you try to decrypt a file or just clipboard text?

If its a file maybe you need to save it in another way with the correct encoding type (which could be UTF-8).

If its just text check the 'position 52' (line? char?) if there is a character that stands out somehow, maybe the encoding got broken from where you had it sent to.
Title: Re: GPA Errors UTF Help Please
Post by: Purplesky on July 12, 2012, 02:37 pm
Thanks for the replys and its clipboard text here is the message in question below can you see an invalid character? (btw its saying 97 typed it incorrectly earlier):


-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Charset: ISO-8859-1
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

hQEMA+Ln9wCCLvPWAQf/XoeS3G/z5FBgVujQrMF3w5rXrbbzO5PkIq7EKMCq4Ez7
SYfJNAwFmueIKGcqjJJkhod89KKsH43J22JJl34fG/tmLdhXVs8tRM7U1lBtSgpw
Rk/bZfPAuuhEDr/GCnZKo8XqNE/UZqLdvQ0rML1Roany7y0YvihGUyyEfUX6WNkX
3bwEsliHRks4JCNilflhVorSulvCfToKr8CkhDmeIjWUUmlTRU4UZA6WXez4A+Ns
WjYjtzrIYoj7sacIV7sLWYw23UBFYRDiZaAh9nQDaXye+6VUB0+l6jGssejp+RfX
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PgQ/Wr3uG7V+qTvURsN00QXWvCxitcb1NjVw2ljl4Wwa3EnDhNs72FjMA+kVrIw2
fiLJO6pIK00PSvyYMWB+x11tndvwh/jg0rbiKUCI17kGmijju3DYBhNhdnpSlmJz
U42kJuBkvF98OfLoxr3DbxJCydXu7p8ODT5r5RVHOUJsQpGsaVoVz65jj9QrQIYV
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tvokeim6+VSf+DG1uPlZ0Ya0b/cBNjfe7ovb/M4/BPpd4dusNkEtx4ck4GrmMVm3
N+l8uPeMYISwfvFxdckrEstIKNyfS5jkNAtmDOZz0sBGAVNmq1t1WQ7lJLv27ror
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q//y8aSySJeWSHBfUgxKnhLb4kpCKuZuL9f8ePZec98K/UA6cykVRN4khy7XWnMs
90KNj1TmEjqGv7XPI5gwgiqKCYRjFiuJ27vnoHMIg8CP7S/lMuEumrg/MjNcrX+O
tKl2K8NcbPbwJSlwwCh2i07bfFtasdv2qwbxViGK9XXi19oLXIAAsyfVjJdxaGjU
QIH1YnWHMw==
=XT+x
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
Title: Re: GPA Errors UTF Help Please
Post by: LouisCyphre on July 12, 2012, 10:08 pm
Thanks for the replys and its clipboard text here is the message in question below can you see an invalid character? (btw its saying 97 typed it incorrectly earlier):

That's odd.  I tried the message here and no errors were produced (obviously I couldn't decrypt it).

Assuming the error message is referring to a Unicode position, 97 is 0x0061 which is the letter "a" so even though your character set is configured as ISO-8859-1, it should not produce any errors.

http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x0061/index.html

One thing about character sets is that you should make them match in all the environments you use to avoid conflicts.  I usually set everything to UTF-8 because it includes ISO-8859-1 and plenty more besides that.
Title: Re: GPA Errors UTF Help Please
Post by: Purplesky on July 13, 2012, 07:13 am
Thanks guru and louis appreciate both of your help i will give GPG4USB a try that will most likely work imo thanks again!
Title: Re: GPA Errors UTF Help Please
Post by: LouisCyphre on July 13, 2012, 11:36 am
Thanks guru and louis appreciate both of your help i will give GPG4USB a try that will most likely work imo thanks again!

You're welcome.