Slow WBStart; Ringhio, or SabreMSN/Wet-bug?

I just noticed a very slow WB start (WB came up, but AmiDock took its time, say 40-50 seconds, adn the system was unusably slow). I had newly installed Wet, and thought that disabling it could help, it however didn't solve the problem.

After som error searching I found that the ENV:ringhio.appsprefs.xml was a whopping 2 megs (compared to what it usually is). Looking at it I found that the entries for SabreMSN and WET had a lot of garbage in them. The garbage consisted of international UTF-8 characters. I have a voulme with the name "H?rddisk", and the name of Wet is "V?der" in swedish.

So, does SabreMSN and Wet use some sort of unicode.libaray that is faulty, or is the fault within Ringhio-server?

The appsprefs XML-file can be found here: ringhio.appsprefs.xm
Removing the strange entries solved the problem.

@jaokim

Quote:

Only locale.library with catalogs in various charsets. I'd suggest that application.library or Ringhio doesn't like non-US-ASCII characters.

Chris

@jaokim

I was wondering if it was AmiDock trying to start up as my AmiDock is rather large and ENV:ringhio.appsprefs.xml is still very small.

@Chris

Are you using the Arexx interface? I don't remember if Arexx supports non-US-ASCII characters.

Could you please provide me with the string you're sending to Ringhio, to replicate the problem?

@m3x

For actual notifications, yes - but these probably won't be collating against Wet for the poster's problem, due to a bug where I use a non-translated application name. The prefs file posted above suggests that it is not recognising the (translated) application name from RegisterApplication() and is constantly re-registering it.

For reference the command sent is:
RINGHIO APP=Weather SCREEN=FRONT IMG="t:wet_XXXX" TITLE="Location, Country" "Conditions, xx?C"

All the strings can change, those are the defaults. APP=Weather won't match up with the registered app name on non-English locales as I forgot to insert the translation of "Weather".

Chris