Debian Bug report logs - #542449
make sure strings sent to control have the utf8 flag on

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: debbugs: cannot retitle with UTF-8 characters in new title

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:08:40 +0200

Package: debbugs

Hi!

I was trying to retitle a bug report but it failed due to using the
UTF-8 “” quotes. This is the returned error message:

,---
Processing commands for [email protected]:

> retitle 541734 sg3-utils: Use dh_prep instead of previous “dh_clean -k”
Failed to set the title of 541734: Non-printable characters are not allowed in bug titles.

>
End of message, stopping processing here.
`---

regards,
guillem

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Don Armstrong <[email protected]>

To: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#542449: debbugs: cannot retitle with UTF-8 characters in new title

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:08:39 -0700

retitle 542449 make sure strings sent to control have the utf8 flag on
severity 542449 minor
thanks

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I was trying to retitle a bug report but it failed due to using the
> UTF-8 “” quotes. This is the returned error message:
> 
> ,---
> Processing commands for [email protected]:
> 
> > retitle 541734 sg3-utils: Use dh_prep instead of previous “dh_clean -k”
> Failed to set the title of 541734: Non-printable characters are not allowed in bug titles.

Using the pretty quotes is kind of silly, but regardless, this is a
bug that probably should be fixed.


Don Armstrong

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Message #19 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#542449: debbugs: cannot retitle with UTF-8 characters in new title

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:10:16 +0200

Hi!

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 12:08:39 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> retitle 542449 make sure strings sent to control have the utf8 flag on
> severity 542449 minor
> thanks

Sorry about the severity, forgot to set it to minor.

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I was trying to retitle a bug report but it failed due to using the
> > UTF-8 “” quotes. This is the returned error message:
> > 
> > ,---
> > Processing commands for [email protected]:
> > 
> > > retitle 541734 sg3-utils: Use dh_prep instead of previous “dh_clean -k”
> > Failed to set the title of 541734: Non-printable characters are not allowed in bug titles.
> 
> Using the pretty quotes is kind of silly, but regardless, this is a
> bug that probably should be fixed.

Sure thing, it's only that I used them w/o thinking and given that
they work in other places was just surprised to see them not work
here.

thanks,
guillem

Message #24 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Finney <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: printable characters are rejected by debbugs retitle

Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:46:35 +1100

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Package: debbugs
Severity: normal

I have also experienced this bug. Text with typographically-correct
quotes happens to be the trigger, but it would seem likely that other
characters will also be inappropriately rejected (with an incorrect
message about “unprintable characters”).

I disagree with the ‘minor’ severity: this bug makes it impossible to
set a correct bug report title if, for example, the title *discusses*
text in non-ASCII as the summary of the bug. Don't worry, though: I'm
not going to start a game of severity ping-pong.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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