Bug#803384: command-applet: Command Applet cuts off output string in the middle of multibyte characters

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Axel,

On  Do 29 Okt 2015 14:57:23 CET, Axel wrote:

> Package: mate-applets
> Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-3
> Severity: normal
> File: command-applet
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Unfortunately Command Applet lacks configuration settings, e.g.  
> whether and where to cut
> off the string it is given by the program it calls. If strings are  
> cut off, this seems
> simply to be done along byte boundaries, causing the panel to  
> display an ‘unknown
> character’ mark (white question mark on black diamond) and  
> /var/log/syslog to show:
>
> org.mate.panel.applet.CommandAppletFactory[28797]:  
> (command-applet:28910): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string  
> passed to pango_layout_set_text()
>

Could you be more descriptive on how to reproduce this issue?

What do you do?

What do you expect to happen?

What does really happen?

Presume that I don't know what the command applet is for and how to use it...

Thanks,
Mike
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