Cyrillic in reports

[Sergei Dolmatov]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:24:44PM +0900, Reinke Bonte wrote:
> I am not sure whether this is an GtkHTML bug. I have the same problem
> with Japanese characters in reports. There might be something wrong with
> my locale setting, but in my case gnucash writes those strange entities
> into the account (.xac) file. 
> 
> Sergei, can you read through your account file whether you have the same
> problem there? In my case (eucJP encoding), preliminary tests suggest,
> that the entities in the account file are actual unicode encodings,
> however, they are not unicode encodings of the Japanese characters, but
> unicode encodings of the ISO-8859 representation of the eucJP encoding
> of the Japanese characters.

Yes, in .xac I have these entities too. And they aren't UNICODE for cyrillic
too.

> 
> The reult is that the Japanese characters show correctly on the
> register, but not in the reports.
> 
> Please let me know, if I am completely mistaken.
> 
> 
> Reinke
> 
> 
> On 04 Dec 2002 23:47:22 -0500
> Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > I believe this is a GtkHTML bug..  As Gnucash uses GtkHTML to show
> > HTML pages, there isn't much we can do to work around this.
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > Sergei Dolmatov <sergei@dolmatov.dsb.ru> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:43:31AM +0800, Sergei Dolmatov wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:59:12PM +0100, Christian Stimming
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Sergei Dolmatov wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Then I wonder how much we can do about it. Maybe gtkhtml is just
> > > > > totally broken with respect to cyrillic, or the gnome font
> > > > > installation has problems (on the other hand, if the normal
> > > > > labels work fine, it can't be too bad). Can you try the "Show
> > > > > URL" report (I've forgotten the actual name) in the "Utility
> > > > > reports" submenu (or was it in the Help menu?)? Then, in that
> > > > > report, enter the URL of a website that you know has cyrillic
> > > > > characters on it. If it does *not* work, too, then we are sorry,
> > > > > but we probably can't fix that from gnucash. Instead, you would 
> > > > > need to bug the gtkhtml developers to fix it.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, this is problem with gtkhtml AFAICS - devhelp doesn't show
> > > > cyrillic too. Sorry for too early report problem without real
> > > > investigation.
> > > 
> > > Looks like problem still exists.
> > > In short: when I do report export in HTML, in resulting file I see
> > > UTF-8 encoding in header (in meta) and entities like &#219;. AFAIK
> > > such entities must be UNICODE symbols, but they are just KOI8-R
> > > codes for cyrillic. So my though: they wasn't converted to UTF-8,
> > > just putted as is.
> > > 
> > > Also AFAICS all report system is done with guile. I'm not familiar
> > > with Scheme unfortunately (and gtkhtml too), so can't investigate
> > > problem more closely. So I'm asking for help - may be you can point
> > > me in right direction- where converting should be done and why it
> > > doesn't working? :)
> > > 
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Encoding of outputted html is utf-8, but entites aren't for
> > > > > >russian. May be there is a problem with converting koi8-r to
> > > > > >utf-8.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Gnucash sources, so may be
> > > > > >someone could point me to right direction for digging? (On
> > > > > >#gnucash I got advice to speak with Christian Stimmings...)

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Regards,
Sergei Dolmatov.
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