RFC - UTF patch

[Reinke Bonte]

This patch would cause me a lot of trouble. As I said in an
earlier post, I depend on UTF-8 and GNUcash does it quite well with it,
when you follow the instructions that I gave in an earlier posting.

Because the unconform way the xml backend stores non ascii characters,
this patch could cause problems for people who have started working with
UTF-8. 

For example, my locale is ja_JP.UTF-8. If I start GNUcash the way you
suggest, I would start it

export LANG=ja_JP; gnucash

... This prints thousands of error messages on the screen before it
finally dies.

Try my workarounds for the UTF-8 problems, I think they are a bit more
universal.



Reinke





On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:17:31 -0300
Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> wrote:

> Here is my "until we have the gnome2 port" solution to the UTF-8
> problems.
> 
> The attached file is a drop-in replacement for the bin/gnucash script.
> 
> To test, simply copy the script I attached to your "--prefix"/bin/ 
> directory and run it.  This solves all my UTF-8 problems... how 'bout
> yours?
> 
> Should work with OSes that use LANG or LANGUAGE to set the language. 
> If your OS uses some other mechanism, at least you aren't any worse
> off. Let me know how other OSes deal with langauge settings and I'll
> make the appropriate adjustments.
> 
> Here is the actual bash code snippet I wrote (not the actual script),
> if bash masters out there want to comment:
> 
> # SHOWTEXT
> if [ $LANG ] && [ `echo $LANG | grep ".UTF-8"` ];
> then
>     NEWLANG=`echo $LANG | sed -e "s/.UTF-8$//"`;
>     if [ -n $SHOWTEXT ];
>     then
>        echo "Your LANG env var is set to $LANG.";
>        echo "GnuCash does not support UTF-8 encoding well.";
>        echo "Changing your LANG var to $NEWLANG";
>     fi
>     LANG=$NEWLANG;
>     export LANG;
> elif [ $LANGUAGE ] && [ `echo $LANGUAGE | grep ".UTF-8"` ];
> then
>     NEWLANG=`echo $LANGUAGE | sed -e "s/.UTF-8$//"`;
>     if [ $SHOWTEXT == 1 ];
>     then
>        echo "Your LANGUAGE env var is set to $LANGUAGE.";
>        echo "GnuCash does not support UTF-8 encoding well.";
>        echo "Changing your LANGUAGE var to $NEWLANG";
>     fi
>     LANGUAGE=$NEWLANG;
>     export LANGUAGE;
> fi
> 
> 
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