MenuLibre

Cut off launcher name and description in Polish translation

Bug #1793406 reported by Mariusz Kubański on 2018-09-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1825213: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 34-35: unexpected end of data. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	MenuLibre	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

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Bug Description

Hello. There's a problem in current MenuLibre on Xubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 with cut off names and descriptions in many, many launcher entries.

Screenshots:
1) https://ibb.co/c0WDfU
2) https://ibb.co/dXqN1e

In addition to that, if I click on the cut off name to edit the launcher, it shows the full name, but if I click to edit the description, it still doesn't show the full description in the text field.
See here - https://ibb.co/i9CVS9

I'm not sure what causes this issue, but when I changed the system language to English, it wasn't occurring anymore.

Launcher names and descriptions in the Whisker Menu are displaying correctly, launcher names in the left side pane in MenuLibre application itself are also OK.

See original description

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Mariusz Kubański (spass) on 2018-09-19

description:

updated

Konstantin K. (tehkos) wrote on 2018-09-22:

menulibre locale error.png Edit (94.5 KiB, image/png)

Same in russian localization
Look at screenshot.
Instead of "Веб-браузер" there is only "Веб-бр".
And instead of "Смотреть в интернете" there is only "Смотреть в".
All applications with non-latin characters have such reduced titles.

Konstantin K. (tehkos) on 2018-09-22

Changed in menulibre:
status:	New → Confirmed

Mariusz Kubański (spass) wrote on 2018-09-23:

I've just looked at many launchers in MenuLibre and I can confirm what tehkos wrote, seems like this problem occurs specifically when there's a "Polish specific" (in my case) letter with diacritic mark in the name and/or description, so "ę, ó, ą, ś, ł, ż, ź, ć, ń".

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote on 2018-09-26:

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1793406

tags:

added: iso-testing

RedBug312 (redbug312) wrote on 2018-11-03:

markup_escape_text.patch Edit (396 bytes, text/plain)

Same under tranditional Chinese language.

This bug caused in [GLib.markup_escape_text](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~menulibre-dev/menulibre/import/view/head:/menulibre/util.py#L99)

If called without second argument, the length would fallback to `strlen()` in C. which counts the byte number. However `len()` in python would count character number, resulting in name being cut-off.

Reference:
- [gi](https://github.com/GNOME/pygobject/blob/master/gi/overrides/GLib.py#L414)
- [glib](https://github.com/GNOME/glib/blob/master/glib/gmarkup.c#L2248)