Bug 144444 – window title not showing accented characters

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Bug 144444 - window title not showing accented characters


Summary:	window title not showing accented characters


Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 112091

Product:	GnuCash
Classification:	Other
Component:	Register
Version:	1.8.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	David Hampton
QA Contact:	David Hampton

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Reported:	2004-06-16 01:55 UTC by Paolo Benvenuto
Modified:	2018-06-29 20:44 UTC

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Description Paolo Benvenuto 2004-06-16 01:55:43 UTC

I have an account whose name is Préstamos, and in the register window it appairs
as Prstamos, i.e without the "é" character.

I noted that the same happens if I copy with ctl-c the account name from the
account field in the register window in split txn mode: pasting it in this
report bug again doesn't put the "é".

My locale:

LANG=es_ES@euro
LC_CTYPE="es_ES@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES@euro"
LC_TIME="es_ES@euro"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES@euro"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES@euro"
LC_PAPER="es_ES@euro"
LC_NAME="es_ES@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES@euro"
LC_ALL=es_ES@euro

Comment 1 Derek Atkins 2004-06-16 15:39:52 UTC

I suspect this is just a gnome-1.4 limitation.

Comment 2 Paolo Benvenuto 2004-06-16 17:57:16 UTC

But I'm using gnome 2.4 !

Comment 3 Gerald Weber 2004-06-29 13:24:26 UTC

I was using gnucash 1.8.1 in Conectiva 9. I now moved to SuSE 9.1 using 
gnucash 1.8.8 and having the same problem and was not able to use my previous 
files anymore.  
It seems to be a utf8 problem. I solved it using recode: 
recode h0..u8 < in.xml > out.xml 
Note: make sure in.xml is unziped.

Comment 4 Christian Stimming 2004-07-16 09:40:02 UTC

Thanks, Gerald, for the workaround. This confirms that the gnucash-1.8.x series
will not be able to deal with non-ascii characters in a UTF-8 environment, but
this will probably be fixed with the gnome2 port (to be expected in some months).

Comment 5 Chris Lyttle 2004-08-17 06:10:46 UTC

Punting

Comment 6 Paolo Benvenuto 2004-09-07 23:50:49 UTC

I had a gnucash file that gnucash read well, but with all the accented character
of the type á="&#225;".

I tried to convert it as Gerald says, but when opening out.xml with gnucash I
found that all the accented characters where converted in strange ones. However,
gedit read it well.

my system settings:

LANG=es_ES@euro
LC_CTYPE="es_ES@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES@euro"
LC_TIME="es_ES@euro"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES@euro"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES@euro"
LC_PAPER="es_ES@euro"
LC_NAME="es_ES@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES@euro"
LC_ALL=es_ES@euro

and my predefined locale (as it is defined with "dpkg-reconfigure locales") is 

es_ES.UTF-8@euro

Do I have something wrong, or why can't I see the accented chars well in gnucash?

Comment 7 Christian Stimming 2005-10-06 09:03:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112091 ***

Comment 8 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:44:18 UTC

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