#1063509 geany-common: Builtin C tags autocomplete incorrectly due to incorrect UTF-8 conversion of tags files

Package:
geany-common
Source:
geany-common
Submitter:
Zeb Figura
Date:
2024-02-09 04:42:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1063509#5
Date:
2024-02-09 04:20:17 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Commit 1f2bd775333f01cf3e2d521f2c817ad8ee0247d6 ("Convert ctags files from iso-8859-1 to utf-8") is incorrect and should be reverted. The relevant file is not in iso-8859-1; it is essentially an ASCII file that uses high octets as special separators. Converting breaks the file parsing.

In practice the effects of this can be seen by opening a file, typing the first few characters of e.g. "memcpy", and attempting to complete. Geany will suggest the nonsense string:

  memcpyÌ1024Í(void * __dest, const void * __src, size_t __n)Ö0Ïvoid *

Similar failures can be seen with any other builtin C symbol.

I've tagged this with "patch", but the patch is just to revert the relevant commit.