Le lun 17/10/2005 à 11:07, Christian Stimming a écrit : > Dear Didier, > > this patch is still pending, isn't it? Has there been any discussion > whether this solution is a good one for the gnucash-1-8-branch? I haven't been aware of such discussion. Actually, until recently, the idea was that there would be no more release of gnucash 1.8. > > In fact I have been implementing this patch manually ever since I > switched to SuSE9.3, which has a UTF-8 locale by default. I.e. I added > "export LANG=de_DE" to the gnucash script, and I recommended this to all > the other Germany that complained about the utf8 chars. I'm not sure > whether your concerns about the files from the utf-8 locales are really > valid. I think that would only be the case if people started gnucash, > saw the weird characters, but went ahead nevertheless and entered the > new account names. Actually, this happened to me: I had no problem unless I used reports. I believed that reports were broken and didn't use them :-). After I applied the patch, I had to modify some labels in my transactions.
The worst case scenario is if the user has started to enter data in utf-8, then adds more entries in ISO-8859-1. When the user will switch to Gnucash G2, libxml2 will fail to convert a mixed file (it will still read it, but fail to convert ISO-8859-1 to utf-8) > However, I think that this wouldn't be the case -- > people would first want to fix the weird characters, and that > necessarily means they will switch the gnucash context to non-utf8. > Also, if they use the account templates that are shipped with gnucash, > then the account names are in latin1 anyway. That's probably why I didn't use them :-) > > So becasue for gnucash-1.8.x we know for sure that the respective > libgnomeui doesn't support UTF-8, I think this change is a usable > solution and should be committed to the gnucash-1-8-branch. That's a difficult decision... One could argue that there is no big problem for the moment (gnucash users don't complain), and there is a risk to add this patch... On the other hand, non English-speaking people that used gnucash with an utf8 locale (that's the case on fedora), may think that gnucash is broken.... Didier. > > Christian > > Didier Vidal schrieb: > > [Resent, my first email bounced because I was not member of the list] > > > > Some linux distribs (including Fedora) set UTF 8 locales by default. > > With such locales, GnuCash doesn't behave correctly. In particular, > > reports are not displayed correctly (utf8 chars are split in two). > > This patch transforms UTF_8 locales into their base locale at startup > > and displays a warning. > > It assumes locale naming schemes as described at > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Unicode-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4 and > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets > > > > > > Note: > > This patch is not transparent to gnucash users who already created files > > with an utf8 locale. Account names or transaction names they entered > > that had unicode letters are no longer displayed correctly. I'll try to > > work on a different patch that help display the html reports correctly > > also with in an utf8 locale, the only problem I've observed with > > gnucash/UTF-8 with fedora's package. > > By the way I also observed that gnucash does not write the encoding in > > the XML file that is saved. That might be the source of some > > locale-related problems, and definitely might be a problem for people > > that exchange gnucash files. > > > > Didier Vidal. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --- gnucash-1.8.11/src/bin/generate-gnc-script 2003-01-23 > > 07:30:21.000000000 +0100 > > +++ gnucash-1.8.11.utf8protect/src/bin/generate-gnc-script 2005-09-05 > > 00:00:00.255954108 +0200 > > @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ > > GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED="no" > > export GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED > > > > +(echo \$LANG | grep UTF-8 > /dev/null ) && LANG=\`echo \$LANG | sed > > s/\.UTF-8//\` && echo UTF-8 not supported. Setting LANG to \$LANG > > + > > exec "${TARGET_SCRIPT}" "\$@" > > EOF > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-patches mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-patches _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
