Segmentation fault when translating a single word from en to fr using Babel Fish

[Joachim R.]

Binary package hint: gnome-translate

System : Ubuntu 8.04, French locale.

How to reproduce :
1) launch gnome-translate
2) click edit->preferences (édition-> préférences in French)
3) ensure "Babel Fish" is checked and is the first item of service list
4) click close button ("fermer" in French)
5) select English as source language and French as destination language
6) enter a single english word like "blather" as text to be translated
7) hit ctrl+T or click "translate" button ("traduire" in French)
gnome-translate will crash with the following message :

(gnome-translate:6415): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed
Erreur de segmentation

[Joachim R. (jro)]

I forgot to report the syslog :

May 13 16:32:55 SIL0039562 kernel: [13459.204846] gnome-translate[6437]: segfault at 00000008 eip b7425221 esp b51d9280 error 4

[Joachim R. (jro)]

Occurs int karmic too

[Thibault D (thibdrev)]

Unable to test gnome-translation in Precise 11.10 as bug #892728 needs to be fixed first.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I think this version is not under a development any more.