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Bug 576685 - Display problem with non-UTF8 charset
Display problem with non-UTF8 charset
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gitg
Classification: Applications
Component: gitg
git master
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gitg-maint
gitg-maint
: 576686 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-25 09:54 UTC by jessevdk@gmail.com
Modified: 2009-04-05 15:53 UTC
See Also:
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Description jessevdk@gmail.com 2009-03-25 09:54:55 UTC 
Originally filed as Debian bug #518705: http://bugs.debian.org/518705 
"While trying out gitg on a computer with et_EE.ISO-8859-15 locale (uses non-UTF8 charset), gitg fails to display non-ascii characters correctly. The simplest example is commit dates from March - the name of March contains a umlaut in Estonian and this is garbles. 
It looks like pango expects all strings in UTF-8 but gitg fails to encode them: 
(gitg:12368): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()" 
This is easy to reproduce with the said locale, but any backtrace is next to useless.
Comment 1 jessevdk@gmail.com 2009-03-25 10:07:52 UTC 
*** Bug 576686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 jessevdk@gmail.com 2009-04-05 15:53:53 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.