Malformed unicode characters in status bar

[ekenberg]

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Problem description

Status bar does not show unicode characters correctly, please see attached screenshot. In this case, Swedish character ä is replaced by several underscores.

Full version info

OS: Linux Mint 21.3 (X-Cinnamon/cinnamon)
Word size of Ondsel: 64-bit
Version: 2024.2.1.37226 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 2024.2.1)
Hash: 1a1bd7290494aef925a026c87b808ac58d53c3b0
Python 3.11.9, Qt 5.15.13, Coin 4.0.2, Vtk 9.2.6, OCC 7.7.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * fasteners 0.5.24
  * Ondsel-Lens 2024.5.6.01

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[pieterhijma]

See my answers here. FreeCAD only supports ASCII characters in things that can be an expression. Since a filename can be part of an expression, FreeCAD changes characters that are out of the ASCII range into underscores. The behavior you see is currently by design.