#161 Capital vowels in Pinyin no accents in Flashcards

[Michael van den Berg]

If there is a capital vowel with an accent in the Pinyin, then, in Flashcards when studying flashcards, or in the entries list, no accents are shown on that capital.

Example:
阿拉伯语 A1 la1 bo2 yu3 Arabic (language)
俄语 E2 yu3 Russian (language)

The first example show like "A1 lā bó" while it should show like "Ā lā bó". If the first letter is changed into a lower-case letter, the tone-mark shows correctly. See attached picture.
See

Notes:
* Both examples are foreign (not Chinese) names, that start with a vowel. Since names start with a capital, this capital is a vowel. When this capital-vowel is also the vowel that requires the tone-mark, the problem occurs.
*　Since most Chinese learning books will have only a few Foreign names, and of these names even a smaller portion will start with a vowel, the problem occurs infrequent. However, many course books introduce already in the first few chapters country names and words for some very common languages - Arabic and Russian being important ones. Hence, especially beginning learners (= beginning users of ZDT) experience this problem.

Workaround: the tone-number is placed after the syllable when shown in Flashcards or in Categories. So the users are able to study these words.

[Michael van den Berg]

Steps to recreate:
1. Double click any category
2. In the list that opens, press CTRL-N to add a new entry
3. Type "阿拉伯语" the simplified field and "A1 la1 bo2 yu3" (with the capital 'A') in the pinyin field, and fill in the other fields.
4. Click Finish. The list shows "A1 lā bó" in stead of "Ā lā bó".

Since I have created the bug myself, could Kaya or Oliver review this, and set it to open-accepted or comment if found otherwise?

[Anonymous]

I can take care of this.

[Anonymous]

How do I change status of bug ticket?

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Michael van den Berg mvdberg112@users.sf.net wrote:

• assigned_to: kaya --> Oliver Emery
• Comment:

Oliver, Thank you! Assigned to you.

• [bugs:#161] http://sourceforge.net/p/zdt/bugs/161 Capital vowels in
  Pinyin no accents in Flashcards*

Status: open
Milestone: any-next
Created: Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:27 PM UTC by Michael van den Berg
Last Updated: Tue Sep 02, 2014 02:23 AM UTC
Owner: Oliver Emery

If there is a capital vowel with an accent in the Pinyin, then, in
Flashcards when studying flashcards, or in the entries list, no accents are
shown on that capital.

Example:
阿拉伯语 A1 la1 bo2 yu3 Arabic (language)
俄语 E2 yu3 Russian (language)

The first example show like "A1 lā bó" while it should show like "Ā lā
bó". If the first letter is changed into a lower-case letter, the tone-mark
shows correctly. See attached picture.
See

Notes:
Both examples are foreign (not Chinese) names, that start with a vowel.
Since names start with a capital, this capital is a vowel. When this
capital-vowel is also the vowel that requires the tone-mark, the problem
occurs. Since most Chinese learning books will have only a few Foreign names,
and of these names even a smaller portion will start with a vowel, the
problem occurs infrequent. However, many course books introduce already in
the first few chapters country names and words for some very common
languages - Arabic and Russian being important ones. Hence, especially
beginning learners (= beginning users of ZDT) experience this problem.

Workaround: the tone-number is placed after the syllable when shown in
Flashcards or in Categories. So the users are able to study these words.

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[Michael van den Berg]

Oliver, Thank you! Assigned to you.

[Anonymous]

How can I change the status of a bug ticket?

[Michael van den Berg]

Tested in v1.0.3 beta (v1.03v2). Unfortunately, the issue still persist using the original steps.