Public bug reported: I asked support question 287448 about this issue and Actionparsnip suggested I file a bug about it.
I am running Ubuntu 15.10 with daily updates. When the title of a window contains non-ASCII characters they often (not always) are displayed as "replacement characters" (question mark in diamond, �). I can reproduce this with Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, and LibreOffice. By going to a directory with a non-ASCII sign in its name I can also reproduce it in gnome-terminal. When I override Compiz (0.9.12.2) with Metacity the characters are displayed correctly. I see no exact pattern in the affected texts; for instance, the titles of these two URLs both contain an "ö" (U+00F6) but only the first one exhibits the behavior in Firefox, the second displays the "ö" correctly: * https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6r * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6ldner When I run compiz in a terminal I see the following messages when the problem occurs: * unityreak_table (break_type) <unknown>:0 Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() * unity.windowmanager.x XWindowManager.cpp:107 Impossible to get the property WM_NAMEfor window ... properly: impossible to convert to current locale My locale ($LANG) is eo.utf8, so there should not be a problem converting any Unicode string. ** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553561 Title: question mark � in window titles Status in software-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I asked support question 287448 about this issue and Actionparsnip suggested I file a bug about it. I am running Ubuntu 15.10 with daily updates. When the title of a window contains non-ASCII characters they often (not always) are displayed as "replacement characters" (question mark in diamond, �). I can reproduce this with Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, and LibreOffice. By going to a directory with a non-ASCII sign in its name I can also reproduce it in gnome-terminal. When I override Compiz (0.9.12.2) with Metacity the characters are displayed correctly. I see no exact pattern in the affected texts; for instance, the titles of these two URLs both contain an "ö" (U+00F6) but only the first one exhibits the behavior in Firefox, the second displays the "ö" correctly: * https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6r * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6ldner When I run compiz in a terminal I see the following messages when the problem occurs: * unityreak_table (break_type) <unknown>:0 Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() * unity.windowmanager.x XWindowManager.cpp:107 Impossible to get the property WM_NAMEfor window ... properly: impossible to convert to current locale My locale ($LANG) is eo.utf8, so there should not be a problem converting any Unicode string. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1553561/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
