Problem with XML encoding or file corruption?

[Guillaume Gardet]

Yes, the GPS coordinates are :
* DMS: 43°23'32.291"N 1°47'01.817"O (replace O by W for the English version).
* Dec.: 43.392303, -1.783838


Guillaume



Le 29/05/2017 à 17:54, Dirk Hohndel a écrit :
> Those geo tags are automatically retrieved from a web service (but you can turn this off).
>
> Can you share a complete entry with GPS coordinates so I can try to reproduce this?
>
> /D
>
>> On May 29, 2017, at 3:46 AM, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> I finnally managed to recover my file by opening it with vim and editing the lines with the strange value. Now the file is opened ok and Subsuface display is fine.
>>
>> But it seems there is a bug in Subsurface while creating a new dive site. It adds strange tags by default. Moreover, I did not find where to edit those tags, from subsurface. It seems it should be Country/town, or something like that. Maybe auto-computed from GPS coordinates ?
>>
>>
>> Guillaume
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 29/05/2017 à 12:35, Guillaume Gardet a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have encountered a problem just now with Subsurface 4.6.4.
>>>
>>> Until now, my special chars were ok (é, è, ....) and the XML file was UTF-8.
>>>
>>> I have uploaded 6 new dives this morning, save it locally and synced to cloud. I re-opened Subsurface after 1 hour or so and all my special chars are broken.
>>> Launcing subsurface from a terminal indicate :
>>> **************************************************
>>> /home/guillaume/subsurface/guillaume.xml:70: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>>> Bytes: 0x96 0xA7 0x3F 0x27
>>>   <geo cat='2' origin='0' value='@��?'/>
>>>
>>> **************************************************
>>>
>>> And the file type is now "Non-ISO extended-ASCII text".
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it a Subsurface error while saving or a file corruption on disk?
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to recover a proper UTF-8 file?
>>>
>>>
>>> Guillaume
>>>
>>>
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