certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash

Bug #357270 reported by Psy[H[]
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected.
After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum ( http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of users' machines when using gnome and xfce.

Steps to reproduce:
Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash too.
This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction" and ":"
When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens.

Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111
first is with symbols between "Fiction" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug.

Revision history for this message
Psy[H[] (vovik-wfa) wrote :
summary: - some symbols in window title make panel crash
+ certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Psy[H[] (vovik-wfa)
description: updated
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