Bad / incorrect display accented letters in Window title bar [ast]

Bug #1330041 reported by ivarela
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
7.2
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
Nominated for Trusty by Stephen M. Webb

Bug Description

In Unity desktop, the accented letters (á , é, í, ó, ú..) aren't displayed correctly in the Window title bar when using Asturian language

The bug is only reproduced in Unity. If you change to Gnome desktop (sudo apt-get install gnome-panel), window title bars are displayed correctly.

In the same way, I have tested the problem and is not present in another languages like [es, ca..]

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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :
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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 7.3.1
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keldo (keldo) wrote :

I'm using English (United States) as my system language on Ubuntu 14.04 and I have the same issue. Screenshot attached.

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Xuacu Saturio (xuacusk8) wrote :

This bug affected me with Unity on Ubuntu 14.04

As of Unity 7.3.1+14.10.20141016-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 14.10 it seems fixed.

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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :

Xuacu, you're wrong

The bug is NOT SOLVED. I've tested it in a fresh Ubuntu 14.10, FURTHERMORE it's impossible to write accented letters in 14.10 .

We've tested in several computers, and our community can't use accented letters anywhere (mails, browser, documents, etc). Please, solve this bug and change its importance to "High"

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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :

As I said, now is impossible to write accented letters (á , é, í, ó, ú..) in a document or browser.

Steps to reproduce it:
1- Change language to Asturian
2- Change keyboard (Launcher-->System settings-->Text entry-->Asturian (Spain, with bottom-dot H and bottom-dot L).
3- Add it.
4- In the top panel, clic and select the text entry: Asturian
5- Open a .txt file, and try to type á,é,í, ó,ú, ü,ñ

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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :
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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :

It's important to follow the steps i've said above:

1- Change language to Asturian
2- Change keyboard (Launcher-->System settings-->Text entry-->Asturian (Spain, with bottom-dot H and bottom-dot L).

...if you keep your language in English or other, you can type/write accented letters and you'll don't see any changes.

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sumiciu j ke (sumiciu00) wrote :

Confirmed. I've followed the steps in #6 and this bug affects me in 14.10 but maybe they are separated bugs.

The most important issue is the inability to write accents.

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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :

I've open a separated bug, because maybe they are different issues. This bug is for Unity displaying accented letters in window title bar.

This one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1391521

is for the impossibility to type/write accented letters when using Asturian language.

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

I can confirm the UTF-8 text is rendered incorrectly in window title bars when LANG=ast_ES.UTF-8. The very same text (eg. working directory pathname in titlebar of Gnome-Terminal) renders correctly in other locales.

It's unclear if this is a problem in the text rendering or in the local definition.

Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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ivarela (ivarela) wrote :

to comment #11

Hi Stephen,
Do you think that the other issue, (disscussed here and in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1391521 ) are related?

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

@ivarela

I looked at the Asturian keyboard layout chart and can't see a way to add the accented characters unless it uses dead keys (the keyboard layout chart doesn't illustrate those), so I haven't verified that problem.

I had no problem creating a folder named /tmp/áéíóúü using my English (multilingual) keyboard in Gnome-Terminal even using the ast_ES.UTF-8 locale, and it shows correctly in the Gnome-Terminal window title in other locales. I strongly suspect they are two separate problems, although the origin of both may be errors in the locale definition.

Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.3.1 → 7.3.2
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.3.2 → 7.3.3
tags: added: rls-w-incoming
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.3.3 → 7.4.0
tags: added: rls-x-incoming
removed: rls-w-incoming
tags: added: unity-backlog
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