GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 793220
Can't input CJK characters in the transaction description field
Last modified: 2018-06-30 00:04:18 UTC
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 #Environment GnuCash v2.7.4 Windows 10 Enterprise x64 zh-CN under en-US GUI Microsoft(MS) IME #Issue As is reported in #399351, the issue happened again on the recent unstable release v2.7.4, which the CJK characters can't be inputted into the description field in the transaction tab. The input method is the Windows 10 built-in MS IME. The field just stayed blank without any characters or spaces when inputting. But copy and paste would work fine just like usual. But the keyword field in the "Find Transaction" window didn't have this issue. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: My long ID: DCCE F8C4 DFEA 27C8 iHUEARYIAB0WIQSudLywE8VczkSeYl8lDXrspES2GQUCWnm6QAAKCRAlDXrspES2 GU0wAQD5IMA2/+Zo0tx8QVoLcsEW9nqLQVMatIBvtDYp86LjgQD/Sgysol2ysB8H ZmpVAaZcvt1WETWua9iwEaOib2C2HQc= =539a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
This turns out to be a problem in the Mingw-w64 supplied gtk3 installation, which builds the immodules as static libraries. That's a rather bizarre fallback mechanism to allow them to be tested but doesn't work for actual usage because static libraries can't be dlopened, so they're useless.
Hmm, that's not quite right. The modules are being built static but they're also getting incorporated into libgtk-3.dll. gtk-query-immodules-3.0 can't find them there. More study required.
*** Bug 794146 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just tested this with 2.7.6 and the Microsoft Pinyin IME and it works at least as far as I can tell: I can engage the IME, type the beginning of a syllable, be offered a selection of characters across the bottom of the screen, select one by typing its number, and the character displays in the description field. Can you try with 2.7.6 and see if it works for you?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 (In reply to John Ralls from comment #4) > I just tested this with 2.7.6 and the Microsoft Pinyin IME and it works at > least as far as I can tell: I can engage the IME, type the beginning of a > syllable, be offered a selection of characters across the bottom of the > screen, select one by typing its number, and the character displays in the > description field. > > Can you try with 2.7.6 and see if it works for you? Thanks for your reply. I tried the new built 2.7.6-1-g2391db37c+ but it still didn't work. Here is a record of what I got. https://www.dropbox.com/s/lsqqm1b50phjcln/2018-03-14%2009-11-05.mp4?dl=0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQSudLywE8VczkSeYl8lDXrspES2GQUCWqh4NgAKCRAlDXrspES2 GSMnAQDBZsxH0JiJo+rzBKS/vMp9oW/LZsolFbtTa4m+lJ9LFQEAyBVss9GeMzOP 98tVJ+V6IgfJY4pk7Yk9Qe913bWw7QA= =xadc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I tried 2.7.7, it still didn't work.
No surprise, I didn't have time to work on it last week. The video is helpful, thanks for making it.
Unfortunately I still can't reproduce the problem. My turn for a video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/sG0CofNyMHh0MF4y2 Maybe you're using a different IM?
I can input Chinese now. But I change nothing. same gnucash version 2.7.7, same datafile.
The datafile shouldn't matter. It's weird enough that it works in some controls and not others, and for some users and not others. Explorare, how about you?
(In reply to John Ralls from comment #10) > The datafile shouldn't matter. It's weird enough that it works in some > controls and not others, and for some users and not others. > > Explorare, how about you? This issue still exists in my production environment. I'm currently building a test environment using virtual machine.
(In reply to John Ralls from comment #10) > The datafile shouldn't matter. It's weird enough that it works in some > controls and not others, and for some users and not others. > > Explorare, how about you? I've tested it in test environment and it wouldn't work as I expected. The test environment is a Windows 1709 with Simplified Chinese language. Here is another record of this test. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uyldamrfapeoct6/2018-03-22_22-35-52.mp4?dl=0
Explorare, please test with 2.7.8. Your video shows you're still using 2.7.4.
(In reply to John Ralls from comment #13) > Explorare, please test with 2.7.8. Your video shows you're still using 2.7.4. It works again in 2.7.8. Thanks.
It still not work in 3.1.
gorf for 3.1 this is currently being tracked by bug 795253. Please test with the latest nightly build: https://wiki.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ and report your findings on bug 795253 Note the "latest" is the one dated most recently, not with the highest version number! (There's currently a bad build with number 3.900, but you'll want to test the most recent 3.1 build).
Please test with https://wiki.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-3.1-2018-06-05-git-3.1-115-g0b10b4b9e+.setup.exe
I tried this version. I can input Chinese primarily. But maybe cannot input later, randomly. I still cannot find the regular.
Could you elaborate on that a bit? And since this bug is closed it would be better to discuss on bug 795253 as Geert told you in comment 16.
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