Comment 9 for bug 605543

no 'Catalonië' just went fine for me

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Captain Chaos <email address hidden>wrote:

> Twitter started working in Gwibber a few days ago, but now it has
> stopped again.
>
> I noticed that one of the tweets currently on my twitter.com page has
> the word Catalonië in it. Could it be that Gwibber can't handle accented
> characters? And that it only works whenever your Twitter feed happens to
> have no accented characters anywhere?
>
> --
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 0:
> unexpected end of data
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605543
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> Status in Gwibber: New
> Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gwibber
>
> According to bug 530195 the problems in Gwibber should have been fixed in
> 2.30.1, but no such luck. Both the Facebook and Twitter support are broken,
> rendering Gwibber useless for me.
>
> I just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid. I now have Gwibber 2.30.1 running on
> my system, and things have gone from bad to worse. Whereas previously it was
> just Facebook that was working only sporadically, Twitter has now stopped
> working for me as well.
>
> I had a Flickr account, a Facebook account and a Twitter account configured
> in Gwibber, yet the Message screen remains completely empty. No Twitter or
> Facebook messages are displayed, even after manually selecting Refresh. On
> the Home screen the only things that are displayed are Flickr photos, and
> Twitter messages that are @directed at me.
>
> I've attached a log file of a gwibber -d run. As you can see it complains
> that the com.Gwibber.Accounts and com.Gwibber.Streams services are not not
> provided by any service files. That sounds bad.
>
> I have already tried deleting every Gwibber-related settings directory and
> cache directory I could find, but none of it made any difference. I also
> tried removing and re-adding my accounts (during which I discovered that it
> is actually impossible to add a Facebook account anymore! I'll file a
> separate bug for that), but that made no difference either.
>
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