clark kent generates iso8859-1 reports

[Pasi Kallinen]

*EG master

Even though clark kent HTML report claims (with a meta tag) to be UTF-8, the generated report-data.html.raw.html is actually ISO8859-1

User environment variable LANG has no effect.

[Pasi Kallinen (paxed)]

Fix in user/paxed/clark-kent-utf8

I'm not quite sure the hard-coded font path is correct for anything else than Debian and Ubuntu, but that can be changed with --font -parameter.

[Pasi Kallinen (paxed)]

Also: If the default truetype font doesn't exist, clark will use the default GD font - the same font it used before this change.

[Josh Stompro (u-launchpad-stompro-org)]

Hello, I was trying to test this patch out on an EG 2.8.1 system, but I first was trying to confirm that there was a problem. Unfortunately I wasn't able to. I created an html report that shows all the MARC fields for a record with Chinese characters, and everything shows up fine. I'm under the impression that iso8859-1 doesn't include Chinese characters. I would be happy to try again if someone can explain how to show the problem. Maybe this issue was fixed in EG > 2.5?

Josh

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

My suspicion, despite Pasi's statement to the contrary, is that something in the environment affected the output of the report. However, I don't know of anything that would automagically convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1. It could be that Pasi had ISO data in the database.

Since the place where Pasi was (is?) employed at the time has moved on to Koha, I think we'd need someone to independently verify the bug again. I am setting this bug to incomplete and removing the pullrequest tag pending that confirmation. Perhaps, Ben Shum can let us know why he set the bug to confirmed.

[Eva Cerninakova (ece)]

This seems to me to be the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1357978

[Rogan Hamby (rogan-hamby)]

Using a 3.1 beta system I can't duplicate this behavior. I used Japanese kanji characters in several places and the system created correct output each time without falling to iso8859-1.