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Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RE: [Ethereal-users] Error when capturing AIM Traffic

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:55:35 +0200
From: Pisano John

|I recently upgraded to 0.10.3 and now when I capture
|AIM traffic I receive the following error message in
|a DOS window.
|Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
|
|My environment: 
|Windows XP Professional 
|WinPcap 3.0 
|Ethereal 0.10.3 

[CCing to ethereal-dev]

This means that you're using the new GTK2 GUI (otherwise
You won't be using pango for fonts), and that some data
of the AIM traffic Ethereal expected to be US-ASCII,
which it obviously wasn't.

Can you share a small capture file which reproduces the problem?

Regards,

Olivier