Accent bug. v 1.4.11

[Dave Peticolas]

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On 21 Aug 2001 10:12:02 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:55:24PM +0100, Carlos Miguel Sousa Almeida was=
 heard to remark:
> > Hi,
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> > I am in Lisboa, Portugal.
> > I use an updated ximian desktop.
> > I have gnucash 1.4.11.
> > And Portuguese keyboard layout, but LANG=3Deng_US.
> >=20
> > The problem is that i can write accents in accounts names, but not in=20
> > transacions descriptions.
> > I attach a .png to show what can't do.
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> ops, yes it did, I attach it here.
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> Let me know if setting LANG=3Dpt doesn't fix the problem.
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> Dave, comments?  the png shows that clearly, the account name
> is coming out, but not the description field.
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> > I want to insert descriptions like:
> >     - G?s
> >     - Almo?o San??o
> >     - Gal?o e caf?s
> >     - A ilustra??o do batalh?o
> >=20
> >    etc.
> >=20
> > When i try i get:
> >     - G'as
> >     - Almo?o San?~ao
> >     - Gal~ao e caf'es
> >     - A ilustra?~ao do batalh~ao
> >=20
> > What could be the problem?

This looks like a multi-byte character set problem. GnuCash 1.4
cannot handle multi-byte characters sets in the register. For that,
you need GnuCash 1.6.

dave



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