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Bug 29554

Summary:

Special Characters Cause Failure Opening File

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Wesley Wright <wesley.wright>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

QA Contact:

Severity:

critical

Priority:

CC:

searle

Version:

1.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

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Description	Flags
has non-enlish special characters	none

Description Wesley Wright

2003-01-15 13:29:14 EST

When a file contains certain special characters it seems that the WSAD 4.0 UI is
unable to open the file at all.  An internal exception occurs and the console
output displays:
   Unhandled exception caught in event loop.
   Reason:

In particular the character Ã and Â· seem to cause problems when the LANG
environment variable is set to en_US.UTF-8.

To test this, first ensure you set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and export the variable. 
Then run the GUI and attempt to open the offending file.  If the encoding is set
to a latin-1 base (i.e., en_US.iso885915) then the GUI seems to be able to open
the file just fine.

I will attach a sample workspace.

Comment 1 Barry Searle

2003-01-15 14:06:11 EST

Created attachment 2993 [details]
has non-enlish special characters

send on behalf of Wesley Wright

Comment 2 Kai-Uwe Maetzel

2003-01-16 06:10:58 EST

Cannot reproduce on build I20030107. This build is part of the Eclipse 2.1 
stream. There is no maintance on 1.0.