1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/fs/gnunet-fs-gtk-common.c b/src/fs/gnunet-fs-gtk-common.c
index e9c052e6..b2bf9b26 100644
--- a/src/fs/gnunet-fs-gtk-common.c
+++ b/src/fs/gnunet-fs-gtk-common.c
@@ -59,11 +59,25 @@ GNUNET_FS_GTK_add_meta_data_to_list_store (void *cls, const char *plugin_name,
     if (g_utf8_validate (data, data_len, NULL))
       data_to_insert = data;
     else
+    {
+      GNUNET_log (GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_INFO,
+          "Failed to validate supposedly utf-8 string `%s' of length %u, assuming it to be a C string\n",
+          data, data_len);
       format = EXTRACTOR_METAFORMAT_C_STRING;
+    }
   }
   if (format == EXTRACTOR_METAFORMAT_C_STRING)
   {
-    free_data = g_locale_to_utf8 (data, data_len, &rd, &wr, NULL);
+    GError *gerr = NULL;
+    rd = wr = 0;
+    free_data = g_locale_to_utf8 (data, data_len, &rd, &wr, &gerr);
+    if (gerr != NULL)
+    {
+      GNUNET_log (GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_INFO,
+          "Error when converting a C string `%s' of length %u to utf-8 (converted %u to %u bytes): %s\n",
+          data, data_len, rd, wr, gerr->message);
+      g_error_free (gerr);
+    }
     data_to_insert = free_data;
   }