Cyrillic in reports

[Derek Atkins]

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...)
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Sergei Dolmatov.
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