Gparted displays Chinese volume label incorrectly

[Tor Klingberg]

Binary package hint: gparted

Gparted displays the label of an NTFS partition wrongly as M-fM-^VM-0M-eM-^JM- M-eM-^MM-7 when it should be 新加卷. Other parts of the system displays in fine.

See screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gparted 0.5.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 8 14:31:28 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

This problem is related to the following upstream bug report:

Bug 662537 - Ext4 unicode labels not shown correctly
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662537

This problem has been addressed with the following two upstream git commits:

Display ext2/3/4 unicode volume labels properly (#662537)
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=cf8293cf78efe2e2e8b9b74279083c1f986d236e

Display ntfs unicode volume labels properly
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=2ae36153ee52d95799b27bf1b95afde1b94e2b02

The fix for this problem will be included in the next upstream release of GParted (likely 0.11.0 in December 2011).

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

The enhancement to address this bug report has been included in GParted 0.11.0 released upstream on Dec. 13, 2011.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gparted - 0.11.0-1

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gparted (0.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Merge from 0.8.1-1ubuntu5: Run dh_translations during build,
    if available.
  * New upstream release

    GParted 0.11.0 (2011-12-13)

    Key changes include:
    - Display ext2/3/4, ntfs, and btrfs unicode volume labels properly
    - Add labelling of btrfs file systems
    - Enable XFS copy to new smaller partition

    Bug Fixes
    - Display ext2/3/4 unicode volume labels properly (#662537)
    - Display ntfs unicode volume labels properly
      LP: #614994
    - Fix FAT16/32 label displayed as uppercase (#625337)
    - Add labelling of btrfs file systems (#663207)
      Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for small patch
      Requires btrfs-tools package yet-to-be-released (> Oct 25, 2011)
    - Fix btrfs volume label reading (#663590)
      Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for small patch
    - Enable XFS copy to new smaller partition (#663806)
      Thanks to Stephen Kirkby for small reverse umount order patch
    - Use newer btrfs multi-tool control command first (#663884)
      Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this patch
    - Avoid redundant file system maximize actions (#663980)

 -- Phillip Susi <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:39:56 -0500