[GNC] Importing Accounts with non-English Characters

[prl]

On 17/3/21 11:47, prl wrote:
> On 17/3/21 05:20, viking wrote:
>> Liz wrote
>>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:31:34 -0500 (CDT)
>>> viking <
>>> viking2ev at .rr
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quite an old bug from 2017. Is there a workaround to be able to import
>>>> accounts with non-English characters?
>>>>
>>>> I am also not able to /manually/ create a new account including
>>>> non-English characters. For example, the letter "å" can be typed here
>>>> by pressing "Alt-0229". However, it doesn't work when trying to type
>>>> this letter in the Account name for a New Account.
>>>> Is this another bug?
>>> Can you copy and paste the correct characters into place?
>>>
>>> Liz
>> @Liz,
>> Yes. copy/paste works but not typing the character directly. I guess 
>> this is
>> a bug.
> I can't enter non-ACSII characters in the Account name in Gnucash 
> 4.4/MacOS 11.2.3 either (viking is having the issue on Windows GC 
> 4.4). Normally on the Mac, OPTION-"u", "u" should enter ü (u-umlaut), 
> but when I type the "u" after the OPTION-"u", a small text entry popup 
> is displayed that covers the New Account popup's Help button, and a 
> single "u" (without umlaut) appears in the text entry popup.
>
> After that text entry popup appears, all text entry goes into that 
> popup. The Cancel button on the New Account popup still works to get 
> out of it.
>
> Maybe GTK is grabbing the keyboard codes before the normal keyboard 
> text entry processing is done on them.
>
> Peter
>
Curiouser and curioser. If in MacOS GC 4.4, I type OPTION-"u", "u" into 
the little text entry popup that appears after I first enter OPTION-"u", 
"u", that does enter ü (u-umlaut) into the popup text box. However, 
there's something that causes the popup text box to time out, and 
there's no way I could find to get the text out of the popup text box 
and into the AccountName box, not even using copy-paste before the timeout.

Peter