Can't create iOS content with MonoGame Pipeline tool

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Hi, I used content project in vs 2012 express before and got a strange error on iPhone. Two of my textures made device hang, while in emulator I had no problems.
Now I’m trying to use MonoGame Pipeline tool in attempt to avoid those errors, but application doesn’t like my xnb files. I set “platform” setting to “iOS”. All content files set to “content” in build options.
The message from Xamarin studio is “Could not load Fonts/pt-sans-bold-24 asset as a non-content file!”
I have two questions: why may some textures make iPhone hang and what am I doing wrong with MonoGame Pipeline tool?

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That error occurs only if the XNB content file could not be found. This means one of two issues:

  1. You are not packaging the compiled XNB content correctly.
  2. You are requesting the wrong file name (iOS is case sensitive).
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Thank you Tom, I found that I forgot to update monogame on mac. The older version could not load new xnb files.
Now, the game works fine, but there is a problem with fonts: non-latin characters have wrong encoding.
My Spritefont files look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<XnaContent xmlns:Graphics="Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Graphics">
  <Asset Type="Graphics:FontDescription">
    <FontName>PT Sans</FontName>
    <Size>20</Size>
    <Spacing>0</Spacing>
    <UseKerning>true</UseKerning>
    <Style>Bold</Style>
    <CharacterRegions>
      <CharacterRegion>
        <Start>&#32;</Start>
        <End>&#126;</End>
      </CharacterRegion>
      <CharacterRegion>
        <Start>А</Start>
        <End>я</End>
      </CharacterRegion>
      <CharacterRegion>
        <Start>Ё</Start>
        <End>Ё</End>
      </CharacterRegion>
      <CharacterRegion>
        <Start>ё</Start>
        <End>ё</End>
      </CharacterRegion>
    </CharacterRegions>
  </Asset>
</XnaContent>

The files saved in utf-8, and it worked fine before.

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Hum… do you mind putting up an issue on the GitHub site for this.

Be sure to include your example .spritefont that has issues.

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Done: https://github.com/mono/MonoGame/issues/2924

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Thanks… looks like we got it fixed in PR https://github.com/mono/MonoGame/pull/2925.

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It was very fast! Thanks for developing Pipeline tool, it is very useful.

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