#542449 make sure strings sent to control have the utf8 flag on

Package:
debbugs
Source:
debbugs
Submitter:
Guillem Jover
Date:
2010-01-21 03:51:06 UTC
Severity:
minor
#542449#5
Date:
2009-08-19 18:08:40 UTC
From:
To:
Hi!

I was trying to retitle a bug report but it failed due to using the
UTF-8 “” quotes. This is the returned error message:

,---
Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
Failed to set the title of 541734: Non-printable characters are not allowed in bug titles.
End of message, stopping processing here.
`---

regards,
guillem
#542449#10
Date:
2009-08-19 19:08:39 UTC
From:
To:
retitle 542449 make sure strings sent to control have the utf8 flag on
severity 542449 minor
thanks

Using the pretty quotes is kind of silly, but regardless, this is a
bug that probably should be fixed.


Don Armstrong
#542449#19
Date:
2009-09-09 09:10:16 UTC
From:
To:
Hi!

Sorry about the severity, forgot to set it to minor.

Sure thing, it's only that I used them w/o thinking and given that
they work in other places was just surprised to see them not work
here.

thanks,
guillem
#542449#24
Date:
2010-01-21 03:46:35 UTC
From:
To:
I have also experienced this bug. Text with typographically-correct
quotes happens to be the trigger, but it would seem likely that other
characters will also be inappropriately rejected (with an incorrect
message about “unprintable characters”).

I disagree with the ‘minor’ severity: this bug makes it impossible to
set a correct bug report title if, for example, the title *discusses*
text in non-ASCII as the summary of the bug. Don't worry, though: I'm
not going to start a game of severity ping-pong.