Comment 2 for bug 541894

OK, I've had a look at it under en_US and en_GB, both fine. It seems to be to do with how dates are displayed in Norwegian.
Copying and pasting the weird characters turns them into '\U02042780' - eg. 25. okt.20102010\U02042780
I attach a screenshot of the date being mouse-dragged from the box (only way to see it all at once without it being changed).
I may have been over-reacting calling this critical, I was rather stressed at the time. Either way, I can't see Norwegian Linux users being too happy with this bug...