[pkg-tasktools] Bug#820108: taskwarrior: truncated non-ASCII descriptions

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Control: tags -1 patch
Control: forwarded -1 
https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior/issues/1852

Hi,

On 16:29 Tue 05 Apr     , Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: taskwarrior
> Version: 2.5.1+dfsg-1
> 
> Taskwarrior to truncate non-ASCII descriptions for tasks that have
> annotations:
> 
> $ task add 'Zażółć gęślą jaźń'
> Created task 1.
> 
> $ task 1 info | grep ^Description
> Description   Zażółć gęślą jaźń
> 
> $ task 1 ann muu
> Annotating task 1 'Zażółć gęślą jaźń'.
> Annotated 1 task.
> 
> $ task 1 info | grep ^Description
> Description   Zażółć gęś

The attached patch fixes the issue for me. It all comes down to 
extractLine() mixing display characters and bytes, failing to account 
for multi-byte characters. AFAICT, upstream's new code for 2.6.0[1] is 
not affected by this bug.

Please consider applying the fix and backporting it to a buster stable 
release, as UTF-8 support has been a long-term release goal.

[1] 
https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/libshared/blob/eadeda5d170bb513e52cf1a00ec2cc9501077bbf/src/shared.cpp#L293

Regards,
Apollon

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