Hello, I offered to help with the gnome2 port and David Hampton suggested I look at making gnucash work better with utf-8. Not really knowing anything about utf-8, I did a bit of googling, and now need some of guidance on how to proceed.
From what I can see, GNUCash currently takes input from the user in whatever character set they are using, converts it to a "wide character set" (GdkWChar) for internal calculations, then converts back to the users character set for output. However, the Gtk2/Gnome2 widgets are now all designed to work on utf-8 strings. Which means any input we receive from these widgets is already converted from the users character set to utf-8 for us. Any place we accept input from the user we need to treat the input as utf-8 instead of whatever character set the user is using. Likewise, any output we send, we need to pass as a utf-8 encoded string and the Gtk2 widgets translate back to the users character set. I see two ways of going about this: 1.) Continue using the "wide character set" internally, and just convert the user input from utf-8 to wide characters. 2.) Get rid of the "wide character set" and use utf-8 for the user I/O as well as the internal calculations. In my opinion, option 2 seems to be a cleaner solution, though it would be a bit more work. According to David, the main places this impacts is the register gui code and the reading/writing of the xml data file. I poked around the register code a bit and have a fair idea of the work needed to be done there, but I don't really know which of the two options would be best. Thanks, Scott
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