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empathy package

Backslash escapes applied in the chat log

Bug #1068242 reported by Kevin
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Bug Description

When viewing the chat log, and someone sends me text containing what would be considered a backslash escape in most programming languages, the escapes will be applied.

For example, the UNC Path "\\servername\c$\source" is displayed as "\sw01-v2-1c$Source" in the chat log. As you might imagine, this can get annoying - especially when sending data like Windows paths, which are usually chock-full of backslashes.

I tested the standard escapes like \n, \r, and \t
If I send someone the text "1\\2\n3\r4\r\n5\t6\\?", this is shown in the log:
1\2
3
4
5 6\?
Strangely, in the faded "last chat" that's shown when you talk to someone whom you have talked to before, the text is intact - no escapes are applied.

Please sanitize these strings before they are displayed in the log ;-)

The important info in a nutshell:
Ubuntu Version: Precise Pangolin 12.04 64-bit
Empathy Version: 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1
What I expected to happen: My chat's backslashes to be preserved when viewing in the log
What happened instead: My chat's text is having backslash escapes applied

Just to be sure, I tested this bug in multiple protocols. It is present in the Google Talk, Facebook, and SIPE protocol chat history. I assume it is a bug of the log viewer itself. To be honest, I'm surprised this has gone unnoticed for so long.

Thank you,
 - Kupiakos

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote :

thanks for the bug report
please attach the screenshot with the bug.?
any visuals ?

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Kevin (kupiakos) wrote :

Screenshot of the issue. This is the SIPe plugin occurrence of the error, but I'm pretty positive the log method is protocol-independent.

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Kevin (kupiakos) wrote :

Er, I added the screenshot a while ago. Any news on this?

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importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in empathy:
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 3.8.4-1ubuntu1

---------------
empathy (3.8.4-1ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian (LP: #1068242), remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/00_linker-fixes.patch
    - debian/patches/10_use_notify_osd_icons.patch
    - debian/patches/23_idomessagedialog_for_voip_and_ft.patch
    - debian/patches/34_start_raised_execpt_in_session.patch
    - debian/patches/38_default_to_facebook_for_im.patch
    - debian/patches/39_default_to_freenode_for_irc.patch
    - debian/patches/41_unity_launcher_progress.patch
    - debian/patches/42_shell_running.patch
    - debian/patches/43_quicklists.patch
    - debian/patches/47_git_activate_with_platform_data.patch: Patches kept,
      see newly completed patch headers for descriptions.
    - debian/patches/include-empathy-keyring.h: fix implicit declaration of
      empathy_keyring_set_account_password_finish and co by including the right
      header.
    - debian/patches/ubuntu_launch_uoa_panel.patch:
      + Only launch UOA panel when running a Unity session.
    - debian/*: Turn on UOA and split out account plugins into
      account-plugins-* and mcp-account-manager-goa/uoa packages.
    - Remove Universe Build-Deps for geocode and champlain and disable these
      features.
    - debian/indicators/empathy: Install indicator integration point.
    - debian/control:
      + Replace/Conflict/Provide empathy-call
      + Recommend gnome-contacts

empathy (3.8.4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - debian/shlibs.local: Bump version of the libraries

empathy (3.8.3-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Fix Homepage URL
  * debian/rules: Properly set extra LDFLAGS to not override hardening ones
  * debian/rules: Re-enable cheese support
  * debian/control, debian/rules: Re-enable libchamplain support
  * debian/rules: Call dh-autoreconf with --as-needed option
  * debian/control, debian/rules: Re-enable geoclue and geocode support
  * debian/patches/*: Port to the released 0.99.1 version of geocode-glib
  * debian/control: Drop gnome-doc-utils build-dependency (Closes: #717539)

empathy (3.8.3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ]
  * debian/control:
    + Drop obsolete rarian-compat and librarian-dev build
      dependencies.

  [ Simon McVittie ]
  * New upstream release
    - fixes a crash when displaying Google Talk vCards now that they
      can contain a read-only <URL> field, which telepathy-gabble does not
      flag as supported (Closes: #706900)

  [ Laurent Bigonville ]
  * New upstream release (3.8.3)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no further changes)
    - Use canonical URL for the VCS fields
  * debian/rules: Exclude /usr/lib/mission-control-plugins.0/ and
    /usr/lib/empathy from dh_makeshlibs call
  * Add debian/shlibs.local file for private libraries and look for the
    privates libs in empathy package during build.
 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:21:54 -0400

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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