From: Arlen Cuss <ar@...>
Date: 2012-10-19T16:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: database part of a desktop application

> There is one thing that's odd though. If I want to manually edit or view
> the .pstore object, the editor (I use gedit) reports the invalid 
> character error. There are those strange characters inside the file. The 
> coding is UTF-8.

PStore databases are not intended to be human-editable; their contents are binary, so you can't use GEdit, for instance, to edit them.