Accent problem with Write Activity

[Kacandre]

Hi SugarLabs team,

We’re deploying 10 XO-1 with os852 and firmware Q2E45 installed.

We’re using the Write Activity build 72 and the standard OLPC US Keyboard.

The problem is the following. The teachers and the kids are writing in Spanish (the XOs have also been tried with the french localization). We usually write an accent like acute or grave using the altgr+3 or 4 after the letter. The accents display ok. The problem with this new version of Sugar is that, when we’re opening a saved text written with Write 72, the accent are replaced by a square with numbers in it.

Hope that my explanations are clear.

Thanks a lot,

Happy new year to the SugarLabs team.

[uwog]

This sounds like a bug in AbiWord's OpenDocument filter.

Would it be possible to provide us an example document that was created in AbiWord (ie. NOT in Write) itself, and saved in the standard .abw format? That would help a lot.

[Kacandre]

An example of a file created with the problematic version of Write Activity

[Kacandre]

I don't understand your request. AbiWord isn't install. However, I've attached an example of a file created with Write using the usual Keep icon. I transferred the .odt from to Journal to an USB stick. I've tried to open it with OpenOffice.org seems there's no problem. But then I've launched it with the Write Activity and observed the same problem with accent grave and acute.

[RafaelOrtiz]

diagnosing: this seems like a problem of encoding of write when saving, I've opened the attached file with open-office and it tells me that it needs to be fixed, when fixed it displays o.k, but when opened in write it has encoding issues with accents
after resumed.

could be that write is not detecting locale encoding?.

[humitos]

Related with: #3609

[humitos]

I could reproduce this error:

• XO 1.75 os9
• Sugar Language: English
• Keyboard hardware: English (see attached picture)
  • Keyboard Model: OLPC
  • Keyboard Layout(s): English - Default la...lish (US)
  • Key(s) to change layout: Alt+Caps lock

Steps to reproduce this error:

1. Open Write Activity
2. Type the sentence that "Kacandre" uploaded (pay attention at the special symbols - you have to open the .odt file to see the properly). I will attach an image just in case. The sentence is something like this:

   À la semaine prochaine ou à l’été prochain François. J’ai hâte à ta fête.
   

3. Close Write Activity
4. Open Write Activity again.

Issue:

You will see some strange characters there

Expected behavior:

Show the same characters that I have just typed.

[humitos]

This is the sentence to type as example of characters that are not shown in a right way

[humitos]

I could reproduce this error with this keyboard

[humitos]

This is how I see the text after resuming Write

[humitos]

I'm uploading the file that you requested some time ago. I created it with AbiWord included in os9 on XO 1.75.

Hope it helps! :)

[humitos]

File created with AbiWord on XO 1.75 os9

[humitos]

I opened this file in my Debian Testing OS (AbiWord 2.9.2) and I see the characters properly.

[humitos]

Related with #3609

[humitos]

I was doing A LOT of tests[1] about this thing and I found that the only problem is when the file is saved as Open Office Document (mime type: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text).

In fact, if you write the problematic sentence and export the document to PDF, HTML, RTF or TEXT you can see the sentence properly. So I think the problem is in the abiword widget.

I changed ​this line to use application/rtf instead and I could resume Write and see the characters properly.

[1] all the tests were done with the same environment than in comment:6:ticket:2554

[humitos]

As uwog said in comment:2:ticket:2554 it seems to be a problem related with the Open Document filter.

I tested it on Abiword directly:

1. Open Terminal Activity
2. Type: abiword. Enter.
3. Write down the sentence attached here as an image
4. Save the document as Open Document
5. Close Abiword
6. Type: abiword again in Terminal Activity
7. Go to "File -> Open" menu
8. Select my document saved just saved

I see the characters in a wrong way. So, this issue is related with Abiword itself and has nothing to do with Write. I will report this bug upstream.

[humitos]

I have Abiword 2.8.6 in XO 1.75 os11: abiword-2.8.6-17.fc17.armv7hl

[humitos]

​http://abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2012/May/0095.html

[humitos]

I filled in a ticket on the AbiWord's Bugzilla to let them know about this.

• ​http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13360

[manuq]

​http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13360#c10

The upstream comment say we should check if our font supports Unicode "Combining
Diacritical Marks".