[Geany-Devel] [geany/geany] d270e6: Parse compiler provided build date to use the translatable date format string

[Lex Trotman]

On 19 March 2013 02:36, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On 18/03/13 01:27, Lex Trotman wrote:
>> On 18 March 2013 10:31, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>>> Le 17/03/2013 19:51, Colomban Wendling a écrit :
>>>> Le 17/03/2013 17:42, Colomban Wendling a écrit :
>>>>> Le 17/03/2013 17:17, Christian Dywan a écrit :
>>>>>> Branch:      refs/heads/master
>>>>>> Author:      Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de>
>>>>>> Committer:   Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
>>>>>> Date:        Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:17:09 UTC
>>>>>> Commit:      d270e6c69082d114901af23b756a3375a5b5ce23
>>>>>>              https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/d270e6c69082d114901af23b756a3375a5b5ce23
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Log Message:
>>>>>> -----------
>>>>>> Parse compiler provided build date to use the translatable date format string
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a system with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8.
>>>>>
>>>>> Opening the about dialog with LANG=C results in:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (geany:23003): GLib-WARNING **:
>>>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really2.32.4/./glib/gdate.c:2523Error
>>>>> converting results of strftime to UTF-8: Invalid byte sequence in
>>>>> conversion input
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (geany:23003): GLib-WARNING **:
>>>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really2.32.4/./glib/gdate.c:2523Error
>>>>> converting results of strftime to UTF-8: Invalid byte sequence in
>>>>> conversion input
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (geany:23003): GLib-WARNING **:
>>>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really2.32.4/./glib/gdate.c:2523Error
>>>>> converting results of strftime to UTF-8: Invalid byte sequence in
>>>>> conversion input
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (geany:23003): GLib-WARNING **:
>>>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really2.32.4/./glib/gdate.c:2523Error
>>>>> converting results of strftime to UTF-8: Invalid byte sequence in
>>>>> conversion input
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (geany:23003): GLib-WARNING **:
>>>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really2.32.4/./glib/gdate.c:2523Error
>>>>> converting results of strftime to UTF-8: Invalid byte sequence in
>>>>> conversion input
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (geany:23003): GLib-WARNING **:
>>>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really2.32.4/./glib/gdate.c:2523Error
>>>>> converting results of strftime to UTF-8: Invalid byte sequence in
>>>>> conversion input
>>>>
>>>> OK apparently if the LANG doesn't have encoding information
>>>> g_locale_to_utf8() assumes something not UTF-8 (I guess ASCII), and
>>>> since I didn't change LC_TIME, strftime() did output something the GLib
>>>> code couldn't handle (with UTF-8 I guess).  Setting LC_TIME=C fixes the
>>>> issue.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if we can to do something about it.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408637
>
> Sigh, if I knew what problems this can cause, I probably didn't do it...
> However I wonder if this only happens if someone manually fiddles with
> LANG and LC_* settings or if it may also happen on "normally" configured
> system?
>

>From comments on IRC, there are a number of users who like to run
their applications in lang=C whilst keeping their desktop using their
local locale.  So while not very common, it isn't rare.

Cheers
Lex