[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 744508] Re: Pingus 0.7.2 crashes on startup

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Title:
  Pingus 0.7.2 crashes on startup

Status in Pingus:
  Confirmed
Status in Pingus 0.7.2 series:
  Fix Released
Status in Pingus 0.7.3 series:
  Fix Committed
Status in “pingus” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi there is a minor font related bug in Pingus. When you start Pingus
  with the Turkish locale is selected it crashes and gives an error
  message like this:

  $ pingus
  Welcome to Pingus 0.7.2!
  ========================
  data path:               /usr/games/../share/games/pingus/data/
  language:                Turkish (tr)
  font encoding:           iso-8859-9
  sound support:           enabled
  music support:           enabled
  resolution:              800x600
  fullscreen:              disabled

  SavegameManager: Parser problem: Couldn't open file '/home/battal/.pingus/savegames/savegames.scm'.
  Font: datadir://images/fonts/courier_small-iso-8859-9.png
    Error: glyphs found: 188, expected 189
    Format: bpp: 32
    Size: 2640x16
  IMG: datadir://images/fonts/verdana11-iso-8859-0.png
  pingus: src/font.cpp:72: FontImpl::FontImpl(const FontDescription&): Assertion `surface' failed.

  I recognised that was a font related issue. And after opening font
  file I found the source of the problem.

  $ sudo nano
  /usr/share/games/pingus/data/images/fonts/verdana11-iso-8859-9.font

  To solve the issue I edited verdana11-iso-8859-9.font file like this:

   (image "images/fonts/verdana11-iso-8859-9.png"))

  Because Turkish language uses two encodings iso-8859-9 or UTF-8
  encoding.

  Also I would like to translate Pingus using UTF-8 encoding. Because
  UTF-8 is less problematic.  And  tr_TR.UTF-8 locale has an extensive
  usage. What should I do? Does pingus support UTF-8?

  I'd be glad if you may also change the pingus data files accordingly
  as I mentioned.

  Thanks ..

  Erdem