Problem with swedish characters

[Derek Atkins]

gtk-1 is pretty poor about internationalization..  You might want to wait
for gnucash-2.0.  The 1.9.0 alpha release was just made last weekend, so
we're on the road to 2.0 really soon.

I suspect this problem is a mismatch of iso-8859-1 and UTF8.

Unfortunately gnucash-1.8 is REALLY BAD about encodings.  :(

-derek

Quoting Fredrik Persson <frepe at bredband.net>:

> Hello!
>
> I've googled around for solutions to this problem, without finding 
> anything really useful.
>
> I'm having severe problems with the swedish characters åäö, ÅÄÖ in 
> 1.8.10. (Can't tell if this exists on 1.8.12 as well, can't build 
> that thing on Ubuntu.)
>
> Here are a few screenshots to explain the problem:
>
> 1. The characters åäö ÅÄÖ works fine when it comes to account names, 
> as can be seen here:
>
> http://server4.pictiger.com/img/31475/picture-hosting/account-name-works.jpg
>
> 2. The characters åäö ÅÄÖ does NOT work in entries properly, but they 
> DO work in the bottom of the window. I don't know what that is 
> called, but it is clear from this screenshot:
>
> http://server4.pictiger.com/img/31476/picture-hosting/entry-does-now-work.jpg
>
> I started gnucash with non-UTF8 locale like so:
>
> LC_ALL=sv_SE gnucash
>
> ... because my regular locale is en_US.UTF-8 and if I don't do this, 
> no swedish characters are shown at all, and I get a LOT of error 
> messages when I start gnucash:
>
> Error: gnc_mbstowcs: bad multi-byte conversion
> Error: gnc_quickfill_insert: bad text conversion
>
> What can I do? Is there anything I *can* do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Fredrik Persson
>
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