Comment 1 for bug 306322

Similar bug here:
System: windows XP
Tablet: Trust/HyperPen.

If pressure sensibility is disabled in the preferences, the tablet is supported.

If pressure sensibility is enabled, the tablet only works outside the canvas (menus, etc..., but no drawing).
When trying to use the input device menus/dialog, the tablet seems to be known under an unreadable name:

楁瑰步吠扡敬tЕ﫜"ਖ粒 牐獥畳敲匠祴畬s碀Є쏐ѡ行"ꊛ櫅

(this is a copy/paste of what I found in preferences.xml, but I see little squares instead of question marks...)

Notice the tablet works fine in the Gimp. It is known with the same unreadable name, but works fine.
I went into gimp's "devicerc" file, where it reads as:
(GimpDeviceInfo "楁瑰步吠扡敬t桝灀ú類\"菱\"᫷旄\020 牐獥畳敲匠祴畬s桐ɿ\001" ...

The two are not the same, so it might be related to some text conversion when writing to preferences.xml?
I'm using svn 20511, but the bug has been there for a long time.