Referencer can't save library

[chris morris]

If you important a bibtex file with a apostrophe in it you are unable to save the library. It results in in the following error.

(referencer:8657): glibmm-CRITICAL **:
unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
domain: g_convert_error
code : 1
what : Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

This is while using 1.04 installed from source. This has been confirmed using the Debian package. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433488

[John S (jcspray)]

I can't reproduce this on my ubuntu machine which is running a UTF8 locale. It would be helpful if you could or the original debian reporter could attach a bibtex file which triggers this bug.

[chris morris (cm195902)]

It was a locale issue. Changing to locale to UTF8 fixes the problem.

[John S (jcspray)]

Still, Referencer shouldn't work only in UTF8 locales: it would be good to fix this.

[John S (jcspray)]

Chris: can you chase up the reported for a copy of the bibtex file causing the problem?

[chris morris (cm195902)]

Here a single entry bibtex file that did fail. Removing the apostrophe in "Washington's" made it work fine.

[John S (jcspray)]

Okay, I can reproduce this in the fr_FR@euro locale, not in the en_GB.UTF-8 local as expected. Marking as confirmed.

By the way, it's not an apostrophe, it's a quotation mark. Some non-english keyboard layouts use this as an apostrophe I think.