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Re: Cause of "CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData()" Console error entries

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Subject: Re: Cause of "CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData()" Console error entries
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy@great-white-software.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:11:35 -0700
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On 19-Feb-09, at 6:08 PM, Fabian Rueger wrote:

Wow, this is amazing. Searching the RB NUG reveals 11 emails not from this thread that uncovered the same issue, ... first seven (!) years ago and then at least three times since, last before me today just this January. Nobody bothered to fix, further investigate, or seems to have filed a bug report, since the issue seems uninterfering.

RB since at least version 5.x (!) on OS X seems to not properly store its Filetypes in UTF8 format but ASCII, which throws a couple of OS 10 XML parser errors into the Console log everytime you run RB using filetypes. This, from what I gather, is the cause. I guess end users never notice, but internally it's ugly, filling user consoles up with our apps' error entries, portraying us as if we don't know how to parse properly into UTF8. Do we have no pride?

First discovered in 2002, and still needs fixing 7 years later...

Wow. Now I'll stick to this RB NUG tradition myself. Not a word from me! This one shall go unreported until such time as the gods of Austin grace it with their almighty attention. Does no one else ever notice this stuff in the Console?

CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
        (UNKNOWN)

If no one reports it or gives the steps required to reproduce this error then the likelihood it will get looked at or fixed is very nearly zero

I run RB all day long, often with the console open and I will confess to never seeing this particular message

I'd love to know what you're doing that I'm not that makes this show up for you

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