Bug#659507: dconf-tools: dconf does not print out international characters correctly

Anton Eliasson devel at antoneliasson.se
Sat Feb 11 17:13:05 UTC 2012


Package: dconf-tools
Version: 0.10.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
When using the command line dconf utility to read key values using the 
'read'
or 'dump' command, international characters such as Å, Ä and Ö are printed
as a question mark (?) instead. This causes data loss in dconf if you first
dump part of or the entire dconf to a file (e.g. for backup purposes) 
and then
later expect to restore it using 'dconf load'. Here's an example:
     $ dconf read /org/gnome/deja-dup/exclude-list
     ['/home/anton/.local/share/Trash', '/home/anton/H?mtningar',
'/home/anton/dump', '/home/anton/tmp', '/home/anton/VirtualBox VMs',
'/home/anton/Video', '/home/anton/.cache', '/home/anton/Musik',
'/home/anton/Publikt', '/home/anton/pbuilder', '/home/anton/.thumbnails',
'/home/anton/Dropbox', '/home/anton/.ccache',
'/home/anton/.wine/drive_c/users/anton/Lokala
inst?llningar/Programdata/Spotify/Storage', '/home/anton/??????']

The real value of that key is:
['/home/anton/.local/share/Trash', '/home/anton/Hämtningar',
'/home/anton/dump', '/home/anton/tmp', '/home/anton/VirtualBox VMs',
'/home/anton/Video', '/home/anton/.cache', '/home/anton/Musik',
'/home/anton/Publikt', '/home/anton/pbuilder', '/home/anton/.thumbnails',
'/home/anton/Dropbox', '/home/anton/.ccache',
'/home/anton/.wine/drive_c/users/anton/Lokala
inställningar/Programdata/Spotify/Storage', '/home/anton/ÅÄÖåäö']



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dconf-tools depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.10.0-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.2.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-26
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.10.2-6.2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.2
ii  libdconf0                                    0.10.0-3
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.4.8-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.30.2-6
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.2.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-2
ii  libxml2                                      2.7.8.dfsg-7

dconf-tools recommends no packages.

dconf-tools suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Med vänliga hälsningar / Regards
Anton Eliasson





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