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Bug#243465: marked as done (dcgui: Sloppy UTF-8 handling)

Your message dated Thu, 7 May 2009 19:31:36 +0100
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and subject line dcgui has been removed from Debian, closing #243465
has caused the Debian Bug report #243465,
regarding dcgui: Sloppy UTF-8 handling
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Package: dcgui
Version: 0.80-1
Severity: important

 
This package as a whole suffers from very sloppy UTF-8 handling.
 
Assuming you're on a hub with a lot of international characters in filenames.
 
1. When in an UTF-8 locale: Does not display files in the "Find" view
where the files or directories contain non-UTF-8-encoded
characters. The lines become blank, and thus unusable. This hides
hits in *whole directories*.
 
2. Does not save files using UTF-8 encoding of filenames. Breaks all Gnome
apps and is extremely irritating.
 
3. Checking the "Use UTF8 characters" does not help at all. Remote
filenames are still invisible, and few peers understand them anyway.
 
I assume the DC protocol is not internationally safe, so this is
probably a protocol issue. Right??? Anyway, dcgui does not even seem
to have a strategy. Such a stragegy could be:
 
1. Try UTF-8
2. If fail, try latin1 (or something else),
3. else remove offending characters and display the rest.
4. Always use UTF-8 in filenames.
 
The bug #222340 is related, as the error messages come from case
1. above.
 
/Mikael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages dcgui depends on:
ii  dctc                        0.85.9-1     Direct Connect Text Client
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-3     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb3                      3.2.9-19     Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-10     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-10   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-5     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.8-1      GNOME XML library
ii  python2.3                   2.3.3-6      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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Version: 0.80-6+rm

The dcgui package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/526507 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

Kind regards,
--
Marco Rodrigues

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