[Mono-list] Problem parsing a file with non-UTF8 characters

[A Rafael D Teixeira]

I don't think cvs patches files are UTF-8 encoded...

Try to use a reader with the Encoding.Default, but I'm not sure it will 
suffice...

Best regards,

Rafael Teixeira
Brazilian Polymath
Mono Hacker since 16 Jul 2001


>From: Jaime Anguiano Olarra <jaime@gnome.org>
>To: Mono List <mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
>Subject: [Mono-list] Problem parsing a file with non-UTF8 characters
>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:15:16 +0200
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am writing a set of tools in order to reopen the Mono Weekly News (as
>doing them by hand took too much time), you can see the actual status of
>them here: http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/tools/
>
>My big problem now is with monocvsspy.cs. It has been working well with
>the files I have passed it during the tests, but today I tried the
>actual 2003-September.txt mono-patches file. The result is here:
>
>jaime@light:~/src/mwnripper$ ./monocvsspy.exe cvslog-prev
>Enter file to parse: (default 'cvslog-prev')
>This is the time now: Friday, 26 September 2003 01:12:09
>Enter starting day (permited values [1-31]): 22
>Enter ending day (permited values [1-31]): 25
>Enter starting month (f.ex: 'Apr'): Sep
>Searching from 22 to 25, Sep
>
>Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Arg_InvalidUTF8
>Parameter name: bytes
>in <0x005e1> 00 System.Text.UTF8Encoding:InternalGetChars
>(byte[],int,int,char[],int,uint&,uint&,bool,bool)
>in <0x00038> 00 .UTF8Decoder:GetChars (byte[],int,int,char[],int)
>in <0x00140> 00 System.IO.StreamReader:ReadBuffer ()
>in <0x00051> 08 System.IO.StreamReader:ReadBuffer ()
>in <0x00026> 00 System.IO.StreamReader:Read ()
>in <0x00060> 00 System.IO.StreamReader:ReadLine ()
>in <0x0070d> 00 MonoWeeklyNews.MonoCvsSpy:ParsePatches (string)
>in <0x00093> 00 MonoWeeklyNews.MonoCvsSpy:Main (string[])
>
>I really don't know how to solve it. It seems to say: "you are trying
>to read characters out of UTF8". Is it because my ~3 weeks old cvs setup
>is too old or is it something more sophisticated. I am upgrading
>right now but I don't think the problem will be there.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jaime.
>--
>// http://www.go-mono.org -- The Mono Project. .NET + freedom.
>
>
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