#28 Pacman doesn't show 'our special' chars

[Stas Zytkiewicz]

(reported through the ML)

I tried 1.0-pre1 and for Slovenian version I can report this:
Pacman doesn't show 'our special' chars (letters) OK - I'm attaching a
screen shot. Letters like Č, Š, Ž are not displayed OK on the table -
they are written OK at the top (Beseda je: (Word is:)) but when letters
are placed into the maze, the special characters become 2 signs (2
little squares with cross inside).

[Stas Zytkiewicz]

When the first character is 'special' it is also displayed as two boxes.
A pango warning is also given.

[Quique]

I also have this issue, which I think it's due to Packid not treating the strings as Unicode.

You can see what I think it's going on with this example:

foo = "papá"
string.upper(foo)
'PAP\xc3\xa1'
list(foo)
['p', 'a', 'p', '\xc3', '\xa1']
print foo[3]
�
print foo[4]
�

Using Unicode strings:

foo = u'papá'
string.upper(foo)
u'PAP\xc1'
list(foo)
[u'p', u'a', u'p', u'\xe1']
print foo[3]
á

[Stas Zytkiewicz]

Additional info:
It seems to be related to the Slovenian translation.
For example when running in the Arabic locale all the arabic letters are
displayed correctly.
I don't know yet what causing this problem :-(

[Quique]

This patch seems to fix the problem (apparently I can't attach it, so I'll just paste it):

Index: branches/childsplay_sp/lib/packid.py

--- branches/childsplay_sp/lib/packid.py (revisión: 916)
+++ branches/childsplay_sp/lib/packid.py (copia de trabajo)
@@ -526,16 +526,12 @@
self.logger.info("Can't find words for locale %s Using english for the words and sounds." % wordsloc)
wordlist = 'words-en'
wordsloc = 'en'
- if self.SPG.get_localesetting()[1]:
+
+ try:
items = read_unicode_file(os.path.join(self.my_datadir,wordlist))
- else:
- try:
- f = open(os.path.join(self.my_datadir,wordlist))
- items = f.readlines()
- f.close()
- except IOError,info:
- self.logger.exception("can't open or read words file %s" % os.path.join(self.my_datadir,wordlist))
- raise MyError
+ except IOError,info:
+ self.logger.exception("can't open or read words file %s" % os.path.join(self.my_datadir,wordlist))
+ raise MyError

     if self.SPG.get_localesetting()[1]:
         self.words = filter(None,map(operator.getslice,items,\

[Stas Zytkiewicz]

It would make sense to use the read_unicode_file function but it's strange that other locales don't have the same problem.
Anyway, I will try it tomorrow.

[Quique]

Childsplay was using the Unicode function only on RTL languages.
Therefore, Arabic worked fine, but other locales (such as Spanish or French) did have the same problem.

[Stas Zytkiewicz]

Right, then it's solved. Thanks.
I will apply your patch and commit it into SVN.
BTW, one can attach files, almost at the bottom of this page there's a link to attach a file.
Or it suppose to be working :-)