Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
On Thursday, 22 December 2022 15:09:36 GMT Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Okay, I will leave the Greek characters when I see them. It looks a bit > nicer if I send a customer an invoice with the Greek omega symbol, rather > than write ohm. (The electrical resistance of something is expressed in > ohms, and denoted by a lowercase omega.) > Hmm. You could always do what the electronics mags of the 70s and 80s did and use R rather than Omega for ohms so a 68 ohm resistor would be in the parts list as 68R or a 1000 ohm would read as 1k or 1kR... just a thought! PS, I thought that Ohms was capital Omega, and lower case omega (looking a little like a curvy w) was to do with frequencies in resonant circuits or angular / rotational mechanics (there's a 2 -Pi-f ringing a distant bell in my brain)? But that learning is very dusty now, and this is certainly off topic for a GC list! Maf. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 02:09, john wrote: > Yes, it's completely safe on Linux and macOS and mostly safe on MSWindows. > Just make sure that the characters are encoded in UTF-8. Web pages > generally are, but other Windows applications use UTF-16 and pasting into > GnuCash will not produce the desiredresult. Windows CMD and Powershell are > pretty firmly stuck in the 1990s and unless you perform some special > contortions encode non-ASCII characters using DOS code-pages. Don't try to > paste from them into GnuCash. > I'm unlikely to know how a particular web server is configured. But I'll probably be doing most of this on Linux anyway. GnuCash fully supports Unicode via UTF-8 and we have lots of users around > the world who use a variety of writing systems. > Okay, I will leave the Greek characters when I see them. It looks a bit nicer if I send a customer an invoice with the Greek omega symbol, rather than write ohm. (The electrical resistance of something is expressed in ohms, and denoted by a lowercase omega.) Regards, > John Ralls > Dave ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
Yes, it's completely safe on Linux and macOS and mostly safe on MSWindows. Just make sure that the characters are encoded in UTF-8. Web pages generally are, but other Windows applications use UTF-16 and pasting into GnuCash will not produce the desiredresult. Windows CMD and Powershell are pretty firmly stuck in the 1990s and unless you perform some special contortions encode non-ASCII characters using DOS code-pages. Don't try to paste from them into GnuCash. GnuCash fully supports Unicode via UTF-8 and we have lots of users around the world who use a variety of writing systems. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 19, 2022, at 5:47 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > Due to the nature of my work, quite often when copying descriptions from > invoices I will have the Greek omega letter. If a description of a part > has “50 x” where x is the omega letter, I have tended to change it to “50 > ohm” on the assumption that the odd characters could cause problem(s). > > I am using the business features, so if I buy something off a Chinese > seller on eBay, it’s tempting to just copy and paste the text, despite it > is meaningless to me. > > > Dave > > -- > Dr. David Kirkby, > Kirkby Microwave Ltd, > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk > https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ > Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 > > Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. > Registered office: > Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United > Kingdom > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
Also be careful to copy, but not transcribe, as the Cyrillic alphabet has an 'а' that looks very like the Roman 'a' in most font choices, to the delight of many hackers! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 02:19, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I don't think it will be an issue, though that doesn't mean you won't > find a bug or two. I use extended characters in some memos and descriptions and haven't had > any problems so far. I will take a chance. I assume any bugs are unlikely to affect the numerical calculations. > > > You can even use emoji, I'm pretty sure, though I do not. I will not bother with them either. > > > Regards, > Adrien Dave -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
I don't think it will be an issue, though that doesn't mean you won't find a bug or two. I use extended characters in some memos and descriptions and haven't had any problems so far. You can even use emoji, I'm pretty sure, though I do not. Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 7:47 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Due to the nature of my work, quite often when copying descriptions from invoices I will have the Greek omega letter. If a description of a part has “50 x” where x is the omega letter, I have tended to change it to “50 ohm” on the assumption that the odd characters could cause problem(s). I am using the business features, so if I buy something off a Chinese seller on eBay, it’s tempting to just copy and paste the text, despite it is meaningless to me. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters
Due to the nature of my work, quite often when copying descriptions from invoices I will have the Greek omega letter. If a description of a part has “50 x” where x is the omega letter, I have tended to change it to “50 ohm” on the assumption that the odd characters could cause problem(s). I am using the business features, so if I buy something off a Chinese seller on eBay, it’s tempting to just copy and paste the text, despite it is meaningless to me. Dave -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
