GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 103314
error dialog displays without text
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Bugzilla-Product: gnumeric Description: Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79849 for the original bug report. (This is a batch-forwarded bug, if it doesn't make sense let me know. The bug was forwarded because it's a feature request and we don't want to maintain the custom feature or UI change in Red Hat patches, or because we don't expect to fix it ourselves but thought it might be a legitimate issue. It was not obviously a packaging or Red Hat specific bug. If you would rather not be forwarded such bugs, please advise. Thanks) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-12 22:46 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jody@gnome.org.
This was broken on a few levels, then bandaided in 1.0.x 1) There was no ui for selecting the encoding for the file, you could only operate in the current encoding. This is could be fixed in 1.0 if someone made up a patch, but it would be borderline for applying it to the stable tree. 2) The current encoding frequently could not display the character in question. This was 'solved' by also displaying the hex value if the offending character. { { This file does not seem to be a valid text file.\nThe character '%c' (ASCII { decimal %d) was encountered.\nMost likely your locale settings are wrong. {
Despite the `bandaid' certain unrecognized characters still prevent any text to be visible including the added `explanatory decimal version'. In current cvs this has been fixed. This is unlikely to be backported to 1.0.x, although we could change thte error message to only show the decimal value.
It seems the bandaid works in 1.0.x, it just didn't in 1.1.x (change from gnome1.4 to gnome2?). Since it has been fixed in cvs head, I am closing this bug.