[sylpheed:32716] Re: jpilot address book and Freebsd

[Ricardo Mones]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, regisr <regisr at pobox.com> wrote:
> I have a trouble with Sylpheed 2.5.0 and the Address book from Jpilot
> 1.6.0 (I have also upgraded pilot-link to the current version) on
> FreeBSD.
>
> Not all records are displayed and there is a character conversion
> problem for the data. Character conversion is not critical but I want
> at least read all entries.
>
> The AddressDB file is ok: Jpilot display all entries without characters
> problem. I tried also the file with the same software versions
> (Sylpheed, Jpilot) on Ubuntu and it is fine. This is a problem only on
> FreeBSD 6.4 (Prerelease)
>
> About character conversion I have the following messages displayed:
>  (sylpheed:93595): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string
> passed to pango_layout_set_text()
> when I open the AddressBook in Sylpheed.
>
> Did you know this problem (a similar problem happens in 2006) ?

Seems this is an old known problem still not solved, see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346388

Hiroyuki: consider it forwarded upstream now :-)

regards,
-- 
 Ricardo Mones
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