Star Wars screensaver doesn't handle non-ASCII well
Bug #222367 reported by
Vincent Lönngren
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xscreensaver |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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xscreensaver (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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xscreensaver (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
With my current locale, the date is string looks like this: lör apr 26 09:56:22 EEST 2008. The 'ö' here is not displayed well in the Star Wars screensaver. It looks like a typical case of interpreting UTF-8 as something else. The starwars command outputs messages like these:
starwars: font -*-utopia-
starwars: unable to load font "-*-utopia-
although I doubt they have anything to do with it.
Changed in xscreensaver (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Committed |
Changed in xscreensaver (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I am unable to find any star wars screensaver in the Ubuntu repositories, is it a 3rd party screensaver? Can you try this in Karmic 9.10 please? If it still fails, please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 222367
This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Bear in mind that you may need to install the python-launchpadlib package from the universe repository. Additionally, when prompted to give apport-collect permissions for Launchpad you will need to give it at least the ability to "Change Non-Private" data as it will be adding information to your bug report. Thanks in advance!
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/ReportingBu gs.