Cyrillic in reports

[Sergei Dolmatov]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:59:12PM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Sergei Dolmatov wrote:
> 
> >Looks like there are some problems with reports in Gnucash and cyrillic
> >symbols.
> >
> >In short: in gtkhtml I see only blank lines. After exporting to html or
> >printing in .ps file, there are symbols with umlauts (accented characters).
> 
> 
> Just to confirm that we are talking about the same thing here: If you 
> run gnucash, all the button labels and menus are correctly translated 
> into russian, and correctly displayed in cyrillic? But in any HTML 
> report (e.g. the profit and loss report or the balance sheet) you only 
> see blank lines?

Yes, exactly.

> 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.

> >
> >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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Sergei Dolmatov.
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