Bug#509582: still puszed how a non maintainer handled the criticity while not responding to problem

Eric Valette Eric.Valette at Free.fr
Wed Dec 24 11:01:48 UTC 2008


Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008, Eric Valette wrote:
>   
>> 4 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/tmp/toto->echo "text" >> AA1-XxxxxXxxxxxxxé
>>     
>
>  Your shell is creating invalid UTF-8 filenames; when you do something
>  like:
>     % export LANG=foobar
>     % echo "foo" >somefilename-with-8bits-chars
>  the bytes you send to your shell over your terminal are still in the
>  previous locale.  What is important here:
>  - encoding of the filenames on your system
>  - locale in which you run Gtk+ programs
>   
Understood. This also means that someone used an non UTF8 encoding in
the past may well be bitten by this bug later on.
>  Now Gtk+ should work in any combination of these or it's a bug; it's
>  common to use UTF-8 everywhere though, and should be the default on new
>  installs.
>   
Will use my vacation spare time to learn a bit more about locales. I've
already been bitten by filename encoding bug using a samsung mp3 player
and file created with different locales but each time it was a bug (here
a combination of bug in amarok or more precisely mtp8 library and on the
firmware of the mp3 player). There are also some bugs in the NTFS-3g
driver I think...

But I'll take your advice and will switch my locale to fr-FR.utf8 ASAP ;-)
>   
>> (gecko:7216): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon
>> 'drive-optical-recorder'.
>>     
>
>  You want to install some icon theme; hicolor-icon-theme for instance,
>  or perhaps gnome-icon-theme.
>   
Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately both are already installed.

apt-get install hicolor-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
hicolor-icon-theme is already the newest version.
gnome-icon-theme is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

At the beginning I searched for the name given and found that the file
was effectively missing using dpkg -S. Added a package with it it but
thunderbird still does not find it. It is like if the icon database was
not correctly updated. Will hunt that later on.

Vacation is in one hour ...

Thanks a lot for your time, and whish you a merry christmas

-- eric










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