[Enigmail] Invalid UTF-8 Characters

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Cristian KLEIN wrote:
>> Hi Cristian,
>>
>>> I'm the maintainer of the ro_RO locale for Enigmail. Recently I observed
>>> that the message for prefGood („Semnătură bună de la %S”) from
>>> enigmail.properties, which contains UTF-8 characters, is rendered
>>> incorrectly in Thunderbird running in Ubuntu Intrepid.
>>>
>>> More exactly, „ă” is rendered as a box containing 0003. This message
>>> appears above a message in Thunderbird's main window, or when
>>> double-clicking the envelope icon.
>>>
>>> Interestingly, other messages, such as keyAndSigDateID („Semnat în”) and
>>> securityInfo („Informații de securitate OpenPGP”) are rendered
>>> correctly.
>>
>> usually a box showing the Unicode number only appears when the font used
>> doesn't contain the letter requested, instead the Unicode number is
>> shown.
>> However, without having checked, I doubt that the code of „ă” is 0003.
>> In short: no idea.
> 
> Am I really the only one experiencing this problem? I observed that
> beginPgpPart is also rendered distorted. Also, when I replied to this
> message while Enigmail was active, all the special characters („”ăî
> etc.) where distorted? So, I don't think its a simple localisation issue.
> 
> Also, I have observed that the messages go to different objects
> (statusText in one case, errorObjMsg in another). Is there some kind of
> difference between the two?

Where precisely in the code? Both variables are used quite frequently.

> Any ideas?

If you can point me to some Romanian version of Thunderbird, I can look
into it.

- -Patrick
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