Re: addresses from balsa-ab are not encoded properly

[Ildar Mulyukov <ildar altlinux ru>]

On 13.08.2009 16:46:06, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> If you paste the address directly into the address field, does the  
> same thing happen?  Looking over the code, I don't see any place  
> where an address grabbed from an address book is handled any  
> differently from one that's typed or pasted in, as far as encoding is  
> concerned.

Yes, Peter. I see it better now:
  * If I Paste the address into the To: line, the bug is emerged
  * If I type the address manually, the non-latin name is encoded just  
right

So nothing addr.book-specific.
Any ideas? If you need some more info, then let me know.

> > P.S. recent time balsa complains in the run-time:
> > > (balsa:9399): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display:  
> > > assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
> > > Cannot open: unable to open database file
> > Do you have a good explanation for this?
> Sadly, no!  The Gdk-CRITICAL warning occurs when Balsa (or any other  
> app) uses gtk_dialog_run() to present a modal dialog.   
> <URL:http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2009-June/msg00017.html>  
> suggests that it should be fixed in some gtk update, but I'm still  
> seeing it in 2.16.5.

Yeah. I see. Sorry for off-topic.


> The "Cannot open:" string is in Balsa's GPE (sqlite) address book  
> code, in a section handling errors in sqlite3_open().  Do you see  
> that error in a predictable way?  If so, could you apply the attached  
> patch?  It doesn't fix anything, just adds the database file name to  
> the error message, but that might help diagnose it.

Exactly right!

Thanks a lot and best regards!
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