Pix Comments:Place overwritten with 0x1E when Place less than 16 characters long.

[tim747]

Distribution

Mint 22.0

Package version

3.4.3

Frequency

Always

Bug description

Any Place with less than 16 characters gets overwritten/replaced with 0x1E.
This happens both with the Comment window and on browsing and existing photo.

Steps to reproduce

Case 1: Open a browser view of photos with comment:Place less than 16 characters eg Manchester created in pix 3.2.2.
Case 2: Open the Comment window, set Place to Manchester, press save....

Expected behavior

Place should remain as previously written (case 1) or written as entered (Case 2)

Additional information

Comment window does actually save correctly, the corruption seems to occur when the browser view refreshes. This can be seen by selecting a photo in browser view with Properties visible on the screen. Change the Place to "Less than 16" and click save whilst observing Place in the properties pane which will briefly change to "Less than 16" before becoming 0x1E.

[tim747]

Note that this is a DESTRUCTIVE bug that has the potential to trash place names in your whole library!