Description of problem: history uses wrong encoding to show utf8 logs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): since 3.6.3 empathy-3.8.1-2.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Send e.g. "Привет" ("Hello" in Russian) 2. Open Previous conversations Actual results: The last entry is "ÐÑивеÑ" Expected results: Last entry will be "Привет" Additional info: I have checked that my logs in ~/.local/share/TpLogger/ are in utf8. Then I downgrade empathy up to 3.6.2 and restart gnome-session. This is fixed my problem. I have checked several times and can confirm that with empathy 3.6.2 the bug is not reproducible, but reproducible since 3.6.3. The problem here is that g_strescape changed its specifications over time - from the UTF-8-compatible "double every backslash" to ASCII-only "escape everything except 0x20 through 0x7E". Would it be right to invent a new backslash-doubling function for empathy-log-window.c specifically? Not pretty, but passing a 128-character exception string to g_strescape is even less so. This commit created this bug: https://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?h=gnome-3-6&id=1e7449f5a14e2f031389808206c9991f65d3ade7
empathy-3.8.3-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/empathy-3.8.3-1.fc19
Package empathy-3.8.3-1.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing empathy-3.8.3-1.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-9093/empathy-3.8.3-1.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
empathy-3.8.3-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Add patch as downstream (there will be no new releases in 3.8 branch) https://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=6bace22f3ffb9695870267e2a59858b3feeaa83e
empathy-3.8.3-2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/empathy-3.8.3-2.fc19
Package empathy-3.8.3-2.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing empathy-3.8.3-2.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-14109/empathy-3.8.3-2.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
empathy-3.8.3-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.