Created attachment 280178 [details]
Screenshot depicting the issue

Creating a text and then selecting "Text to path" doesn't always send the actual text to path (noticeable using "Select from path"). It sometimes sends only part of the text, sometimes cutting a word in two, sometimes failing at a new line. Only tested it with short texts. Example picture attached.

No error messages were issued (started gimp from terminal with the "--verbose" flag, no messages there when the actions described above were performed).

"gimp --version --verbose" output

GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.8.2
git-describe: GIMP_2_8_0-194-ga42a02e

using GEGL version 0.2.0 (compiled against version 0.2.0)
using GLib version 2.32.4 (compiled against version 2.32.4)
using GdkPixbuf version 2.26.1 (compiled against version 2.26.1)
using GTK+ version 2.24.10 (compiled against version 2.24.10)
using Pango version 1.30.0 (compiled against version 1.30.0)
using Fontconfig version 2.9.0 (compiled against version 2.9.0)
using Cairo version 1.12.2 (compiled against version 1.12.2)

(from Debian Wheezy)