Bug 245280 – sci-astronomy/celestia-1.5.1 shows strange characters in some descriptions due lack of utf8 conversion of some files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2008-11-02 13:52:59 UTC]

Simply follow the following steps on, for example, an es_ES.UTF-8 system: (I am using gtk gui)
1. Launch celestia
2. Click on "Navigation" -> "Tour Guide"
3. You will see that "Júpiter" is shown with a strange character instead of "ú", same occurs for other names and descriptions

While this strange character are show, the following messages are print in terminal:
(celestia:3555): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

Seems that some files in sources directory/locale are still not converted to utf8, the problem is that I don't know what more langs over spanish need this convertion (iconv could be used for this):
$ file ~/celestia-1.5.1/locale/*

shows the file not converted to utf8 yet (including spanish ones)

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2008-11-02 13:53:32 UTC]

Created attachment 170537 [details]
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Screenshot showing the problem

[Comment 2 Michele Schiavo 2008-11-02 15:44:58 UTC]

did you try to login again and re-force the language ?
i did have the same problem with weather applet, it was solved reforcing the language during the login. (it was caused upgrading gnome to .22)

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2008-11-02 19:08:27 UTC]

Yes, but the problem persists :-(

[Comment 4 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) 2008-11-06 12:13:40 UTC]

Should be fixed in cvs, at least for a few languages.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2008-11-06 22:10:08 UTC]

Thanks for the fast fix :-D