Gnucash and utf-8 : summary

[Derek Atkins]

There is no "latest build".  The g2 release is still in progress.
You're welcome to pull it from CVS like everyone else.

-derek

Pawan Chitrakar <pchitrakar at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> We are working on gnucash translation to Nepali and we are not been able to
> get the translated strings in nepali and we are glad that now it is being
> ported to Gnome2/gtk+
>
> Could we get the latest build with UTF-8 support so that we can start checking
> our translation.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> How can we contribute coz we are not developers and don't have knowledge of C
> programming.
>
> regards,
> pawan
>
> On 9/26/05, Didier Vidal <didier-devel at 9online.fr> wrote:
>
>     Le dim 25/09/2005 à 22:53, Derek Atkins a écrit :
>     > Quoting Didier Vidal <didier-devel at 9online.fr>:
>     >
>     > [snip]
>     >
>     > Good to hear the tests worked.  That bodes well.
>     >
>     > > But maybe one could add a unit test in gnucash that opens a gnucash
>     file
>     > > with non ascii parameters, and checks that the objects are built
>     > > properly. The test could even save the file and read it again, to
>     check
>     > > that there is no alteration in the loop.
>     >
>     > Unfortunately this wont work..  There's no guarantee of ordering during
>     > save. It's quite possible that a Load/Save sequence (without any other
>     > changes to the
>     > data) will NOT necessarily produce the exact same bit-for-bit version of
>     the
>     > datafile.  The objects could have a different order within the XML
>     > document. So, this kind of comparison can't be done (easily).
>     I was not thinking of making a diff two the files. Even if the order was
>     the same, libxml may produce changes (for instance escaping or not a
>     char). I was thinking of checking the gnucash objects re-read from the
>     file.
>    
>     pseudo code:
>     for each test file (you could cover various initial encodings) {
>        read the file
>        check object's values (for instance account names) check that they
>     are read as expected
>        save the file (in a different location of course, to keep the master
>     test file clean)
>        read the saved file
>        check the object's values
>     }
>
>     >
>     > > Didier.
>     >
>     > -derek
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