Report Fails to handle accented chars

[Luis Manuel Angueira Blanco (Pexego)]

Hi,

When you try to print a report (RML) with non-ascii characters, like in the string 'día', you get an error that says that can't decode the character.:

   File "/opt/openerp/trunk_pxgo/server/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/utils.py", line 109, in _process_text
   result += unicode(self.localcontext.get('translate', lambda x:x)(sps.pop(0)))
   UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Looking at the stable version (5.0), there is a difference:
            result += tools.ustr(self.localcontext.get('translate', lambda x:x)(sps.pop(0)))
instead of 5.2:
            result += unicode(self.localcontext.get('translate', lambda x:x)(sps.pop(0)))

is this okay? i've tried to change the methods and I've got success (importing previusly "tools").

sorry for the explanation

[Jay Vora (Serpent Consulting Services) (jayvora)]

Hello ,

I would be interested to see the exact steps to face the error again.
With latest revisions, I failed to see it.

Thanks.

[Jay Vora (Serpent Consulting Services) (jayvora)]

Thanks to Dukai,

He pointed us to this important ill-treatment to accented chars.

@subscribers,
Please follow the attached patched at https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/662598.

Thanks.

[Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp)]

Apparently the poster says this bug is fixed in trunk by using the code for 5.0, so it does not seem to affect 5.0 - marking as Invalid in 5.0.

[Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp)]

Assigning to framework team to double-check and properly validate this... seems that it's not completely working yet in trunk indeed.

[Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp)]

Fix landed in server-trunk rev 2984 <email address hidden>

Thanks for the report(s)!

[OpenBMS JSC (openbmsjsc)]

it stills has problems with Unicode data in report headers: some unicode characters are showned as blackbox

[Don Kirkby (donkirkby)]

I'm getting the same black boxes in my reports. I see it when I have Unicode characters in database fields.

Example:
1. Create a sales order quotation.
2. Fill out enough fields to save it.
3. Edit the sales order notes field and include some Chinese characters. (I expect any other multibyte Unicode characters would behave the same.)
4. Click the Quotation / Order button to generate the report PDF.
5. I expect to see the Chinese characters in the note, but I see black boxes instead. The single byte characters in the same field all appear normal. My black boxes look the same as the screen shot from Phong Nguyen.

I'm testing on Ubuntu 10.04 using OpenERP 5.15.

[Thierry BAZIN (thierry-m-bazin)]

I report the error in the bug #681801 where I had a error report instead of black box in the report.
In fact, this error occurs when it is necessary to translate some unicode characters in the header of the report, when, for example, the customer has his field "language" defined.

I changed the header/footer field to obtain manually the translation of the two words ""Mail" and "Phone" which are not automatically translated when the costumer has a defined language.

See the attached report, all word are in French, Phone and Mail stay in English.
"Quotation date" is not translated also.