On wednesday, I reopened the bug 206439 when Aman pointed the following to us… Okay, this seemed a translation bug. Down to the debugging & I found that Comment 12 was where the bug coming from. Giving it a round of translation was the first thing on my mind… which was not very well received [...]
Just fixed Gnome Bz 385414 with this one line patch! I was revolving around & around this line but not actually getting to it for about 6 days now! Initially I was following pure debugging approach to see how the bug is getting into the code, why i18n chars are being displayed as “???” when [...]
I managed to squash one more Evolution bug – (downstream bug) 203058, (upstream bug) 324604. This fix has one of my biggest patches …infact, this bug required two of them, one for evolution & other for evolution-data-server. I wonder why this bug creeped in when we already have a Quoted Printable strings parser in evolution-data-server [...]
When I saw this bug “[mail] Multi-lang text in Body is not printed”, I knew that it is something with the encoding of the message thats causing this bug. After investigating, I found that HTML mails & those stored in drafts used to get printed nicely & not the ones which were composed (ASCII mode) [...]
Lots of time I’ve seen & answered this question… “How do I enable language support for my XXX language” So let me answer this once more & i’ll point everyone back to this post… lazy me The word “support” might mean getting fonts for your language, seeing correct rendering for characters of your language, getting [...]
Today, I was working on bug 200230 – [locale-def] Locale Definition is not in desired pattern for some Locales Some indic locales had incorrect spellings & some others had incorrect rendering. Though rendering issues were out of scope of this bug, correcting the spellings was my task… I started with pa_IN locale & we found [...]
Euphoria of squashing a bug is like no other feeling! I’ve just solved bug #161885 Seeing your alpha patch getting transformed into a real patch is an ultimate feeling! /me gets back to generating the final patch… Happy hacking!