Main Menu editor destroys menu with non-ASCII characters

Development Discussion
#1

I ran into a nasty bug the other day which I mentioned here:

I had installed a new game on Steam, and it’s menu entry is Life Is Strange™. Only that making any modifications would “self distruct” the entire menu since it couldn’t process a non-ASCII character (™). Deleting the character from the launcher fixes the problem.

The affected system is Ubuntu MATE 16.04 with MATE 1.14. The language is en_GB in case that makes a difference.

It is strange… Fortunately there are backups of the menu to restore. Does this happen to other releases/MATE versions too… or could it be something else related to that launcher?

The .config/menus directory
#2

I tried to reproduce that but couldn't:

#3

It appears in the menu OK, did you try editing the menu (anything) using the Main Menu utility? That’s what triggers the bug.

#4

Yes, added another item, unchecked stuff, even deleted one item, still couldn’t trigger the bug.
Were you running the LTS?
Cheers

#5

I am running 16.04 LTS, with MATE 1.14. Are you?

#6

16.04 w/ MATE 1.12.1

#7

Well, seems like a bug in 1.14 to me :wink:

#8

It was a bug in 1.14, and it’s since been fixed in newer releases of MATE :slight_smile:

#9