[Therion] Compiling error due to encoding

[Martin Budaj]

Hi,

I couldn't reproduce this. Could you send a minimal example?

Cheers
Martin

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 2:06 PM Torsten Schnitter <
torsten.schnitter at netcologne.de> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have a thconfig file where I use the statement "language de"/"language
> en" to switch language for the output.
> Within the config file I use some translations like this:
> ...
>    text de "point passage-height:unsigned" "Ganghöhe"
> ...
>    text en "point passage-height:unsigned" "passage height"
>
> Every time I try to compile with "language de" I get an error:
>
> #################### end of metapost log file ####################
> converting scraps ... done
> C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.exe: error -- Invalid utf-8 string!
> writing xtherion file ... done
>
>
> As soon as I switch back to "language en" it does work.
> Therefore I'm pretty sure it is due to the special characters like 'ö'.
>
> I opened the thconfig file with an external editor (Visual Studio Code),
> removed the first line "encoding utf-8" and saved the file with encoding
> "ISO 8859-1".
>
> As soon as I open the thconfig file with XTherion and start compile the
> format is resetted to utf-8 and within the thconfig file the first line is
> replaced to "encoding utf-8" (checke this again with Visual Studio Code".
> And the error above is the result.
> Only opening the config file and closing again without any changes does
> change the encoding line in the config file to utf-8.
>
> I'm using Therion 6.4.0 and can't remeber when this behaviour/problem
> raised.
> I'm pretty sure some time ago this did work without error.
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!
> regards, Torsten
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