LP#1702723 "Localization seems broken for non-UTF8"

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Reported first on Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/menulibre/+bug/1702723

LP#0: Михаїл Т. (mi+launchpad) wrote on 2017-07-06:

My $LANG is set to uk_UA.KOI8-U. When I launch menulibre, there is a bunch of errors on stderr:

(menulibre:25614): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
(menulibre:25614): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
(menulibre:25614): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text '\xf0\xcf\xd7\xd4\xcf\xd2\xc9\xd4\xc9' from markup due to error parsing markup: Помилка в рядку 1 на символі 18: Текст закодований як UTF-8 неприпустимим способом - некоректна послідовність '\xf0\xcf\xd7\xd4\xcf\xd2\xc9\xd4\xc9'

and some of the GUI-elements are shown incorrectly (see attachment).

It would seem like a call to g_locale_to_utf8() is missing somewhere, but I'm not sure, where...

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LP#1: Михаїл Т. (mi+launchpad) wrote on 2017-07-06:

Attachments:

• Snapshot of the menulibre window showing the error

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LP#2: Михаїл Т. (mi+launchpad) wrote on 2017-07-06:

Yep, running with LANG set to uk_UA.UTF-8 works fine -- only one warning still appears on stderr:

sys:1: PyGIWarning: GMenu was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('GMenu', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.

but that seems harmless...

Please, fix the app for non UTF8 users. Thanks!