Some utf-8 menu items give Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string

[Didier Vidal]

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Didier.

Le sam 19/11/2005 à 13:18, Christian Stimming a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> as I'm checking the translated SVN-HEAD version, I recently noticed in 
> LANG=de_DE that some menu items are not added correctly into the menus. 
> Namely, two reports with non-ascii characters (German umlauts) in their name 
> will cause a "Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string" and in the menu there 
> will be an empty line instead of the label.
> 
> To reproduce: "LANG=de_DE gnucash" ; you will immediatly see the "invalid 
> input string" on the console; then go into the "Reports" / "Berichte" menu, 
> then you see one empty line instead of the "Account Summary" / 
> "Kontenübersicht" menu item; the other empty item is in the submenu "_Income 
> & Expense" /  "_Erträge & Aufwendungen" and it was supposed to be the 
> "Income Piechart" / "Erträge Tortendiagramm".
> 
> Now the funny thing is that some other report menu items that contain 
> non-ascii characters are displayed just fine. For example, the submenu 
> "_Income & Expense" /  "_Erträge & Aufwendungen" is correct, as are some 
> entries there such as "Income vs. Day of Week" / "Erträge pro Wochentag".
> 
> The /tmp/gnucash.trace also told me that the correct label looks as follows
> 
>   Debug: gnc_menu_additions_menu_setup_one(): 
> Adding /menubar/Reports/StandardReports/_Income & Expense/Ertr_äge pro 
> Wochentag [ErtrgeproWochentagAction] as [menuitem]
> 
> (where the umlaut is in hex 5f c3 a4), whereas the wrong label looks as 
> follows:
> 
>   Debug: gnc_menu_additions_menu_setup_one(): 
> Adding /menubar/Reports/StandardReports/_Income & Expense/Ertr303_244ge 
> Tortendiagramm [ErtrgeTortendiagrammAction] as [menuitem]
> 
> where the umlaut is in hex c3 5f a4 --- somehow the 0x5f (the underscore) 
> shows up at the wrong place. However, if I add an actual underscore to that 
> string in order to specify a keyboard shortcut, then the manually added 
> underscore suddently shows up in the label as a literal underscore, but the 
> umlaut is now okay... quite weird. 
> 
> David, I hope you already have an idea by now :-)))
> 
> Christian
> 
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