easytag crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text()

[Viktor Yu. Kovalskiy]

Binary package hint: easytag

EasyTag is crashed when I type non-English symbol at scanner window.
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
easytag:
 *** 2.1.4-1.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/easytag
Package: easytag 2.1.4-1.1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: easytag
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: easytag
StacktraceTop:
 g_markup_escape_text () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_markup_vprintf_escaped () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_markup_printf_escaped () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
Title: easytag crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-6-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:IA__g_markup_vprintf_escaped (format=0x80d7430 "%s", args=0xbfaa2074 "�\aq\b")
IA__g_markup_printf_escaped (format=0x80d7430 "%s") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.18.1/glib/gmarkup.c:2622
Scan_Fill_Tag_Generate_Preview () at scan.c:571
IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x85f0218, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1,
IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x85f0218, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x8553498,

[Vincent Povirk (madewokherd)]

Looks to me like easytag is passing data to g_markup_printf_escaped that is not valid utf8. append_escaped_text can't handle this situation.

[Vincent Povirk (madewokherd)]

glib documentation states that these functions will only work for utf8 text so it is an easytag bug.

[blondin (grignon-matthieu)]

I have the same trouble with ubuntu jaunty, i tried to install the version 2.1.6 from the PPA, the problem is still here.
(sorry for my english)
In attach the copy of what happen when i lauch easytage in a terminal.