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ubiquity package

[kubuntu] wrong encoding for input in oem-config

Bug #837042 reported by Chad A Davis
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.10
Oneiric
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.10

Bug Description

OEM installation in German using kubuntu-oneiric-desktop-i386.iso from 2011-08-29.

After oem-config-prepare and a reboot, oem-config starts. The input fields have the wrong character encoding, shown by garbled text when trying to enter a name that has a German Umlaut in it. The keyboard layout is correct, verified by trying other keys on the keyboard. However, the display of any non-ASCII characters is incorrect.

Screenshot will be attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: oem-config (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 30 00:10:43 2011
DuplicateSignature:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/fontconfig-voodoo", line 102, in <module>
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110829)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote :
Apport retracing service (apport)
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: oem-config
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10-beta-2
assignee: nobody → Evan Dandrea (ev)
Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)
tags: added: rls-mgr-o-tracking
Evan (ev)
summary: - wrong encoding for input in oem-config
+ [kubuntu] wrong encoding for input in oem-config
Revision history for this message
Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote :

Note that this only affects the 'setting up a new user' dialogs.
After logging in, accented characters are displayed correctly, for example in 'konsole'.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
milestone: ubuntu-11.10-beta-2 → ubuntu-11.10
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Stealing this bug.

This only happens when oem-config is started from oem-config-firstboot, not when it's started from a normal X session. I suspect that Qt may be looking at the locale.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Evan Dandrea (ev) → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.8.0

---------------
ubiquity (2.8.0) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Fix SSID UTF-8 decoding, and replace any still-invalid characters with
    the Unicode replacement character just in case (LP: #839143).
  * GTK frontend:
    - Fetch geoname data asynchronously (LP: #837217).
  * Always start oem-config with LANG=en_US.UTF-8; this doesn't affect
    translations since we use debconf for those, but forces Qt to use UTF-8
    encoding for text fields (LP: #837042).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:44:44 +0100

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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