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

[ivarela]

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..]

[keldo (keldo)]

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

[Xuacu Saturio (xuacusk8)]

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.

[ivarela (ivarela)]

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"

[ivarela (ivarela)]

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

[ivarela (ivarela)]

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.

[sumiciu j ke (sumiciu00)]

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.

[ivarela (ivarela)]

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.

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

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.

[ivarela (ivarela)]

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?

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

@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.