Folder locations replaced with garbled characters when accessing the preferences

[Hadrien Mary]

Folder locations are being replaced with garbled characters when accessing the preferences. Folders with these characters are being created in the home folder as a result of this. This goes for the download-dir, incomplete-dir and watch-dir settings in settings.json where e.g. "/home/forage/Downloads" is changed to "/home/user/XXXX", where "XXXX" would be 'Chinese' characters.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: transmission 2.77-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-030900-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 3 19:04:44 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-05 (89 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130305)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: transmission
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hadrien Mary (hadim)]

The bug seems to appears only on Ubuntu GNOME version. Someone can confirm that ?

[Hadrien Mary (hadim)]

up ?

[Hadrien Mary (hadim)]

Fix has been commited upstream in 2.80. Trunk build works fine for me.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This is fixed in 2.80, which has been released on Ubuntu.