Message-Id: <E1CrKuJ-0000pJ-7J@simone>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:50:19 +0100
From: Nicolas Boulenguez <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: gnumeric: Silent data loss when saving in a directory with iso8859-1 name

Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.4.1-1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss


Hello.

Save a file, say "Book1.gnumeric", in a directory named "=E9". In the
window dedicated to "save", it is named "\351" (iso8859-1, octal) in
the saving dialog. Nothing seems unusual, I heard that gnome uses
UTF8. Except the file has a size of 0, and the data is lost.

It does not lose data, but it seems related:
- The same works correctly if I create the directory with gnumeric (it
uses an unicode filename, with ugly two-letters results).
- Loading a file with an "=E9" in its name crashes gnumeric.

Maybe it is not worth the mess, because UTF8 is the future and few
users use the command line and gnumeric. But a "save your data
elsewhere" message would be nice.


PS: Do not cry for my data, I printed before s(h)aving them
accidently.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9.20041229
Locale: LANG=3Dfr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=3Dfr_FR@euro (charmap=3DISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnumeric depends on:
ii  gconf2                   2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database=
 syste
ii  gnumeric-common          1.4.1-1         Common files for Gnumeric, t=
he GNO
ii  gsfonts                  8.14+v8.11-0.1  Fonts for the Ghostscript in=
terpre
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.16-6        Library of functions for 2D =
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolki=
t
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.0-4         Bonobo CORBA interfaces libr=
ary
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.0-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared librar=
ies an
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database=
 syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.1-1       Library to load .glade files=
 at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.4.8-1         The GLib library of C routin=
es
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtim=
e file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented d=
isplay
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0       2.8.2-1         The GNOME 2.2 print architec=
ture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0     2.8.1-1         The GNOME 2.2 print architec=
ture U
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User =
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-8         The GNOME virtual file-syste=
m libr
ii  libgsf-1                 1.11.1-1        Structured File Library - ru=
ntime=20
ii  libgsf-gnome-1           1.11.1-1        Structured File Library - ru=
ntime=20
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.4.14-2        The GTK+ graphical user inte=
rface=20
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange librar=
y
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.2-1.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a COR=
BA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.6.0-3         Layout and rendering of inte=
rnatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline para=
meters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Mana=
gement
ii  libxml2                  2.6.11-5        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) c=
onfigu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtim=
e

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