Bug#803384: command-applet: Command Applet cuts off output string in the middle of multibyte characters
Hi, Mike, Thanks for your quick reply − and thanks for the Command Applet as it is the only applet that makes Mate usable for me because so many other applets do not work at all. Now, more to the point, the following command (using u2026) works well (except for the fact that the string is cut short): echo 'bla ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ' The following command (using u2026 and u1f383) causes problematic output: echo 'bla ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ……… ' I am attaching a PNG file showing the relevant part of the panel. BTW, - We may communicate in German. - I would really appreciate it if the applet would allow its user to configure the numbedr of characters after which the output is truncated. Thanks again. Cheers, Axel
Bug#803384: command-applet: Command Applet cuts off output string in the middle of multibyte characters
Hi Axel, On Do 29 Okt 2015 14:57:23 CET, Axel wrote: Package: mate-applets Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-3 Severity: normal File: command-applet Dear Maintainer, Unfortunately Command Applet lacks configuration settings, e.g. whether and where to cut off the string it is given by the program it calls. If strings are cut off, this seems simply to be done along byte boundaries, causing the panel to display an ‘unknown character’ mark (white question mark on black diamond) and /var/log/syslog to show: org.mate.panel.applet.CommandAppletFactory[28797]: (command-applet:28910): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() Could you be more descriptive on how to reproduce this issue? What do you do? What do you expect to happen? What does really happen? Presume that I don't know what the command applet is for and how to use it... Thanks, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/mailxchange/kronolith/fb.php?u=m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de pgpNRGIyhLWw4.pgp Description: Digitale PGP-Signatur
Bug#803384: command-applet: Command Applet cuts off output string in the middle of multibyte characters
Package: mate-applets Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-3 Severity: normal File: command-applet Dear Maintainer, Unfortunately Command Applet lacks configuration settings, e.g. whether and where to cut off the string it is given by the program it calls. If strings are cut off, this seems simply to be done along byte boundaries, causing the panel to display an ‘unknown character’ mark (white question mark on black diamond) and /var/log/syslog to show: org.mate.panel.applet.CommandAppletFactory[28797]: (command-applet:28910): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mate-applets depends on: ii gir1.2-mate-panel 1.8.1+dfsg1-3 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.14.1-1 ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.36-2 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.31-3+nmu4+b1 ii gvfs1.22.2-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libcpufreq0 008-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-0+deb8u1 ii libdbus-glib-1-20.102-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype62.5.2-3+deb8u1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u3 ii libglib2.0-02.42.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3 ii libgtksourceview2.0-0 2.10.5-2 ii libgtop2-7 2.28.5-2+b1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libmate-desktop-2-171.8.1+dfsg1-3+deb8u1 ii libmate-panel-applet-4-11.8.1+dfsg1-3 ii libmateweather1 1.8.0-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-8 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libstartup-notification00.12-4 ii libupower-glib3 0.99.1-3.2 ii libwnck22 2.30.7-2 ii libx11-62:1.6.2-3 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5 ii mate-applets-common 1.8.1+dfsg1-3 ii mate-icon-theme 1.8.0-1 ii mate-panel 1.8.1+dfsg1-3 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-dbus 1.2.0-2+b3 ii python-gi 3.14.0-1 ii python-gobject 3.14.0-1 ii python-gst0.10 0.10.22-3 ii python-notify 0.1.1-4 Versions of packages mate-applets recommends: ii cpufrequtils 008-1 ii mate-media 1.8.0+dfsg1-3 ii mate-polkit 1.8.0+dfsg1-4 ii mate-system-monitor 1.8.0+dfsg1-2 mate-applets suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
