non-ASCII characters can not be typed

[Martin Konôpka]

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1.) Open xmgrace from the terminal.

2.) Try to type some text onto the graph area.
(Window / Drawing objects/Text. Then click on any place in the graph area. A small window "Edit String" opens.)

3.) Go to Window/Font tool and try to choose some of the non-ASCII characters. This does not work.

I guess that the grace package requires some dependencies which are not satisfied in ubuntu. It likely requires some non-UTF8 locales but those look to be missing in ubuntu.

I can not see any free alternative to xmgrace. Free graph-plotting programs with heavy user interfaces usually have poor real capabilities compared to xmgrace. xmgrace is really an easy-to use program for professional plotting. It would therefore be nice if xmgrace worked fine in ubuntu.

BTW, copy-paste using the middle mouse button sometime does not work between xmgrace sub-windows. If this problem occurrs I use a workaround: first copy a string from an xmgrace to a terminal, select it on the terminal and finally paste it (middle button) into the other xmgrace sub-window. This copy-paste issue is not related to the bug which I am just reporting.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: grace 1:5.1.23-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-7.25-generic 3.13.1
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Feb 5 20:19:00 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-31 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140130)
SourcePackage: grace
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Evgeny Stambulchik (fnevgeny)]

Should be fixed in 5.1.24.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package grace - 1:5.1.24-2

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grace (1:5.1.24-2) unstable; urgency=medium

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