[Bug 357270] Re: certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 280484 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280484

** Description changed:

  gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected.
  After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum ( http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of users' machines when using gnome and xfce.
  
  Steps to reproduce:
  Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash too.
  This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction" and ":"
  When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens.
  
  Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111
- first is with symbols  between "Fiction
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- " and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug.
+ first is with symbols  between "Fiction" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug.

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certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357270
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