[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6979) too long translated string causes client crash

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6979 >

Marcelo Burda wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6979 >
> 
>>[i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Lun. Jan. 19 11:08:11 2004]:
>>
>>On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:43:03AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> 
>>It isn't caused by the server but by the client. The client expands
>>the string because of utf-8. See also PR#7226 which we discussed on
>>IRC.
>>
>>The real solution is to change the code from measuring bytes to
>>measuring characters.

Nobody has given a backtrace or any extra information needed to actually 
find the bug.  I tried changing my locale to French but I couldn't get a 
crash (perhaps the bug was fixed in the .po file)?

I believe that this isn't a problem of charsets or or translations. 
It's just a bug.  Someone's copying a string without checking the 
length.  But I don't even know where it's happening.

So, can anyone give detailed instructions on how to reproduce it? 
Please include your exact language settings.

jason