Non-latin characters are turned into ? in Firefox Installer

Bug #439964 reported by Jimhu
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Translations
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
kubuntu-firefox-installer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Harald Sitter
Declined for Karmic by Harald Sitter

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kubuntu-firefox-installer

It seems that Firefox Installer in Kubuntu can't handle Chinese characters well. All of them are turned into ???.
See the attachment below.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 1 20:30:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: kubuntu-firefox-installer 0.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh:en_US:en
 LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: kubuntu-firefox-installer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

Tags: i18n kubuntu
Revision history for this message
Jimhu (huyiwei) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng) wrote :

This happens for Hungarian too.

Changed in kubuntu-firefox-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Aron Xu (happyaron)
tags: added: i18n
removed: apport-bug i386
Aron Xu (happyaron)
Changed in ubuntu-translations:
importance: Undecided → High
Jimhu (huyiwei)
summary: - Chinese characters are turned into ? in Firefox Installer
+ Non-latin characters are turned into ? in Firefox Installer
Aron Xu (happyaron)
tags: added: kubuntu
Changed in kubuntu-firefox-installer (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
importance: Undecided → Critical
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package kubuntu-firefox-installer - 9.10ubuntu1

---------------
kubuntu-firefox-installer (9.10ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Set KCODE to u, so that utf8 works properly (LP: #439964)
  * String change Firefox => Mozilla Firefox
  * Fix desktop file to not include file extension of icon
  * Use proper Mozilla Firefox icon
  * Freeze exceptions (LP: #457228)

 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:30:14 +0200

Changed in kubuntu-firefox-installer (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
David Planella (dpm)
Changed in ubuntu-translations:
status: New → Fix Released
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