A group disappears from buddy list in the en_US.utf8 locale

[Jae-hyeon Park]

Binary package hint: pidgin

When the environment variable LANG is set to ko_KR.utf8, pidgin displays all my MSN buddies and groups, but when LANG is set to en_US.utf8, a group and all buddies belonging to it disappear from the buddy list. For example, if I start pidgin with

    $ env LANG=ko_KR.utf8 pidgin

then the buddy list window shows all my MSN buddies and groups. I have three groups whose names are all written in Korean. If I start pidgin with

    $ env LANG=en_US.utf8 pidgin

then one of the three groups disappears from the buddy list window and only the other two are shown. Then, the lost group is restored if I restart pidgin with LANG=ko_KR.utf8. I keep the options Buddies->Show->Offline Buddies and Buddies->Show->Empty Groups enabled in both cases.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 26 17:06:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2253): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2253): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2345): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2369): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:2342): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -20 and height 48

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Do you get the same with Lucid or Maverick? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Jae-hyeon Park (jhyeon)]

I am sorry for the delay. The same problem is still there in Ubuntu 11.04. Thanks.