Re: [Synaptic-devel] synaptic-0.45pre7: some bugs

[Sviatoslav Sviridov]

Michael Vogt wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:35:40AM +0300, Sviatoslav Sviridov wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >    
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> > I've tested synaptic-0.45pre7 and rev.330 in svn and noticed, that there still
> > problem in information tab that I've described some days ago (I was not able
> > to check it with suggested patch earlier, sorry). we have warning message in
> > console about "Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()" and no
> > information about package version, size, etc. Displayed only: package name,
> > short desc, status, group and priority (there are sometimes some garbage
> > characters after priority).
> > Sometimes after first package selection after starting synaptic I've seen all
> > info (for some packages), but after selecting other packages, and even the
> > first one again information was lost.
> >    
>
> I checked in a new version with another additional utf8() call. Can
> you please check if it works now? It works for me if I set my settings
> to address@hidden 
>
> If it does not work for you, please send me your locales settings and
> I'll see if I can reproduce it here.
>  
I've tested yesterday evening svn release 336, it didn't work for me at 
all: when selecting any package in list synaptic receives signal 11 and 
crashes.

my locale settings:

$ locale
LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_ALL=


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