[Bug 1069019] Re: [software-properties-gtk] can not delete, enable or modify any software source with non-ASCII characters in the comment

[Matej Kovacic]

I have Quantal (upgraded recently), and can confirm the problem.

In fact the problem are non-english characters. When you upgrade,
upgrade tool would disable old sources and add commnet they are
disabled. In slovenian language comment is like: "onemogočeno ob
nadgradnji na quantal". It contains slovenian character "č".

When I changed it to "onemogoceno ob nadgradnji na quantal" ("c" instead
of "č"), everything works fine.

It is a nasty bug for all who don't know how to edit sources.list from
commandline, because you can not enable, remove or edit disabled sources
from GUI tool.

I think solution should be quite trivial, so it would be great if
developers could solve that with higher priority.

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Title:
  [software-properties-gtk] can not delete, enable or modify any
  software source with non-ASCII characters in the comment

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I've tried to reenable PPA's after upgrading the system, so there is
  no reaction on delete button and no any changes after modifying data
  via modify dialog. I can't even enable a source.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.92.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Oct 20 16:07:59 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (1 days ago)

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