Ubuntu
etoys package

Odd characters in package description

Bug #407551 reported by Reuben Thomas on 2009-08-01

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	etoys (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: etoys

The last line of the package description starts with odd characters:

" ï»¿This is the Squeak image developed for the OLPC project."

This doesn't happen in the Debian package, for some reason (same base version).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: etoys 3.0.1916+svn132-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: etoys
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686

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Reuben Thomas (rrt) wrote on 2009-08-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan) wrote on 2009-10-19:

Thanks for your report.

I could not reproduce the bug under the same conditions (architecture and ubuntu version). Description shows no such a character. Setting it as invalid until further details.

Changed in etoys (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Reuben Thomas (rrt) wrote on 2009-10-19:

I can't reproduce this in karmic (and etoys is the same version); please feel free to close it.

Dennis Baudys (thecondordb) on 2011-02-26

Changed in etoys (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Confirmed

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Dennis Baudys (thecondordb) wrote on 2011-02-26:

I stumbled upon the same thing that was reported by Reuben Thomas on 08/01/2009. Therefore I changed the status of this bug to »confirmed« now.

The garbled/odd characters in the English package description [1] of »etoys« are visible in the translation template »ddtp-ubuntu-multiverse« (e.g. for Natty) in Launchpad: ï»¿This is the Squeak image developed for the OLPC project.

Though, interestingly, these characters (ï»¿) do NOT show up on …

a) Ubuntu Linux 10.10 64-Bit (Kernel 2.6.35-25-generic 44-Ubuntu SMP …)
   - When using the Ubuntu Software Center
   - When using Synaptic
   - When using »sudo apt-cache show etoys«

b) Ubuntu Linux 11.04 alpha 32-Bit (Kernel 2.6.38-5-generic 32-Ubuntu SMP …)
   - When using the Ubuntu Software Center
   - When using Synaptic
   - When using »sudo apt-cache show etoys«

Is it possible that this is a bug ONLY related to some problems during a translation import (upload) to Launchpad? If so, please forward this appropriately.

Thanks!

[1] https://translations.launchpad.net/ddtp-ubuntu/natty/+pots/ddtp-ubuntu-multiverse/de/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=%C3%AF%C2%BB%C2%BFThis%20is%20the%20Squeak%20image%20developed%20for%20the%20OLPC%20project.