Special MMI strings fail in chinese language images

[John McAleely]

The system for supporting MMI plugins allows special numbers to be dialled:

*#nnnn#

Which should be directed to MMI plugins in the custom tarball. When using Chinese as a system language, this mechanism fails. Instead of attempting to use an MMI plugin, the phone dialler simply attempts to use the string as a phone number.

vivid-proposed/62

In another bug (listed as a dupe), the characters * and/or # were suspected to be different, and not parsed correctly by the dialler.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

I think I know what happened. The msgstr for char '#' in zh_CN is full width, which fails checkMMI() every time. Here are the full list of locales that have the same problem:

br.po-23-msgstr "Niv."
fa.po-23-msgstr "شماره"
nb.po-23-msgstr "Nr."
nn.po-23-msgstr ""
shn.po-23-msgstr ""
si.po-23-msgstr ""
sk.po-23-msgstr ""
th.po-23-msgstr ""
zh_CN.po-23-msgstr "＃"

Following are locales with msgstr for '*' that do not equal to '*':
hi.po-60-msgstr ""
nn.po-60-msgstr ""
shn.po-60-msgstr ""
si.po-60-msgstr ""
sk.po-60-msgstr ""
th.po-60-msgstr ""

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

This proof-of-concept patch preserve the ability to have translated number strings by renaming `dailNumber` to `displayNumber`, and add back the `dialNumber` property as a raw string. Verified locally but may need some more polishment especially for syncing the two strings. Maybe this should really be implemented into PhoneNumberInput itself.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

From current qml implementation, we may have "*شمارهnnnشماره" displayed for key sequence "*#nnn#". This brings some problems when backspace and insertion in the middle come forward because it assumes each insertion always inserts one character only. After some more analysis on Android's implementation, key name localization is only effective on the displayed text on the button. This means we should not pass i18n.tr("*") but simply "*" for the keyPressed signal. This would also avoid previous one character per insertion problem.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Proposed https://code.launchpad.net/~vicamo/dialer-app/fix-1403476 to replace previous patch based on comment 3.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dialer-app - 0.1+15.04.20150324-0ubuntu1

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dialer-app (0.1+15.04.20150324-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ You-Sheng Yang ]
  * insert untranslated keychar to PhoneNumberInput (LP: #1403476)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:14:20 +0000