Re: pango_layout_set_text
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 05:36, Neil Williams wrote: To me, it seems that we are passing a const char * to pango_layout_set_text() when it is expecting a UTF-8 wchar_t wide char string. Actually, I think that's slightly wrong. pango wants UTF-8 strings, which conveniently fit into char* ... since the whole point of UTF-8 was to traffic ASCII unmodified and everything else within ASCII [via escaped multi-character sequences]. The wchar_t types are a different, 32-bits-per-character [!] type that I believe is UCS-4 encoding. I'm almost positive we want UTF-8. Is this a character set issue (i.e. am I the only one seeing this) or should these functions be converting const char to const wchar_t* using the C library before calling pango? Hmm. I'm not sure where this is creeping in. I'm definitely not seeing the warnings, so it may be something on your side or in non-US locale [which I should have but didn't check yesterday]. I've not looked, but I imagine libxml/xml-parsing should return UTF-8, char* strings; we may need to set some settings to ensure this. GTK/Pango should traffic in UTF-8 char* strings. Since those [data-file, user-interface] are the two main ways to get data into memory, that should cover our bases. Do you see the issues on new-file-creation? Can you isolate the source of the strings? Certainly both US and English date strings should be ASCII-only. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Idears for improving the Busines GUI
Hi, During a discussion on the german GNUCash mailing list some idears came up about the UI of the busines module. I try to translate my Idears for you because this seems to be the best place to discuss them: - Have another tab in the main window like for the reports called something like 'customers suppliers'. - some kind of Table or maybe even a Hirarchy of customers and suppliers in there. With a hirarchical structure you could e.g. store multiple departments for a customer, but I guess that would be a major change - it is not that important. - doubleclicking a customer or a supplier opens a book similar to an accountbook with all the invoices for that company in it. A Invoice then could look like a multi part booking. - in the 'customers and suppliers' tab e.g. red color could point to due invioces. That would make many things a lot easier: - Bulk input of invoices would become a lot more efficient. - It would feel a lot more consistent with the rest of GNUCash. - If you have similar invoices for one customer e.g. every month that could be easier done with duplicating the Invioce with a new date and Invioce number. - Adding a supplier or a customer is almost like adding an account - a lot more intuitive and more consistant with the rest of GNUCash. I know that this does not cover everything of the busines module, but it may be a start for improving the UI. What do you think about these idears? Christof ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
