Re: [Gramps-users] Strange output from new narrative web page

[Charles R. D. <de...@ro...>]

Martin Hawlisch wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> 
>>At times the surname page appear as you would normally expect - all the
>>A's, all the B's, ... all the Z's.  At other times I would get - some of
>>the A's, some of the B's, ...some of the Z's, the rest of the A's, the
>>rest of the B's, ... the rest of the Z's.  I've left an example of this
>>on my web site at http://www.dennett.org/genealogy/gramps2/surnames.html.
> 
> 
> I'm not exactly sure but this behavior sounds like a known bug in Python 2.3
> in regard to locale dependant sorting. This bug does not exist in Python 2.2
> and 2.4 and has been fixed in debian:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321225
> I'm sorry, but I dont know about other distributios (because I use debian).
> 
> As we found out his bug is especially triggered when some special characters
> are to be sorted, like the questionmark "?" that you have used as a surname.
> As a quick work-around you could try to replace that surname for example to
> "Unknown" and see if that fixes the problem.

I generated a new web page and saw the problem I described.  Then I went
to the 5 or 6 individuals who had "?" as a surname and removed the ?.  I
regenerated the web site and the problem went away.

Looks like I've got python 2.3:

rpm -qa | grep python
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3
rpm-python-4.3.2-21
python-2.3.4-13.1    <-------------I'd say this was it.
gnome-python2-2.6.0-3
gnome-python2-gconf-2.6.0-3
python-devel-2.3.4-13.1
gnome-python2-bonobo-2.6.0-3
dbus-python-0.22-10.FC3.2
gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.6.0-3
libxml2-python-2.6.16-3
gnome-python2-canvas-2.6.0-3
mod_python-3.1.3-5.2

Thanks for the help.
Charlie