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da-Peter
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file is not UTF8

Post by da-Peter » Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:53 pm

Hi there,

i just installed OpenVPN Connect on my android and tried to set up a vpn network.

If i try to import the file of my sd-card it says "Error Reading profile: file is not UTF8"

But the same file worked fine to set up the connection on my windows xp laptop.

the .p12 certificate file was no problem. It said import succesful but without the ovpn file i cant use it...

da-Peter
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Re: file is not UTF8

Post by da-Peter » Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:11 pm

No support from the official site for their own software?

I guess I have to stick with 3rd party, they are more responsive....

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jamesyonan
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Re: file is not UTF8

Post by jamesyonan » Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:35 pm

Just make sure that your profile is valid ascii or UTF-8. The Android and iOS versions of OpenVPN Connect are based on a new core which allows profile strings to use UTF-8, but as a result the profile parser is unable to handle profiles which contain invalid UTF-8 sequences. That might explain why the same profile works on desktop OpenVPN 2.x.

da-Peter
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Re: file is not UTF8

Post by da-Peter » Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:54 pm

And how can I convert it. I didn't created the profile

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