Comment 5 for bug 146518

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote :

When you see text such as προγραμματα (many Î) or ?????????????, then it is an encoding issue.
In the first case I think what happens is that non-Unicode text (iso-8859-7) is considered as UTF-8 and is shown like that.
In the second case, there is severe corruption; there was a conversion necessary to a limited encoding, so all missing characters are shown as ???.

In encoding situations like this it is good to supply a screenshot demonstrating the problem. Could you please create a screenshot and attach it to this bug report?

In addition, the problem may have arisen from user configuration changes. You may have changed the system encoding to iso-8859-7 to make some programs work? Can you verify whether this has been done?

Finally, it would be important to verify that a clean Gutsy install has or does not have this bug. This would help verify the report and put resources to fix it. Are you able to install a Beta Gutsy and try to reproduce the bug? If not, can you provide a list of instructions so that someone can try to reproduce? It is important to be able to reproduce the bug.

I hope this helps.