Steps to reproduce: LANG=fa_IR.UTF-8 gnucash The datepicker in the register is not functional. Symptoms: - defaults to (apparently) 2017-11-29, even when the date is today (2018-04-14) - clicking right arrow for year does nothing - clicking left arrow for year moves two years prior - clicking either arrow for month(?) moves one year prior - clicking any date moves one year prior Works in Hebrew and Arabic (Egypt), so it's not something specific to all RTL languages. (originally filed in Fedora at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566741)
I can't reproduce this (any more) with a build on Fedora 27 from current maint branch: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/d0fca7794e58063138ad201e73a6254184b56e2e There have been a lot of fixes in the area of date handling. Perhaps one of those has resolved it. Can you test with a recent maint build ?
Still there in a 3.1 build for me. Is that significantly different from maint?
Unfortunately no. 3.1 was released from the maint branch. I wonder if this is Fedora 28 specific as I can't reproduce it on my Fedora 27 system. I'll recheck when I upgrade to F28 in a couple of weeks.
The gnucash-date-picker just wraps a GtkCalendar in a box so that it can be a cell editor. Maybe the Gtk version makes a difference--as in maybe it's a Gtk bug?
FWIW, I'm actually testing on a local F27 build, as I haven't upgraded yet. The calendar widget works fine in fa_IR.UTF-8 in gtk-demo at least; I haven't tried a more complicated example.
I have tried this on my Gentoo VM and can not reproduce your symptoms. I am using gtk+ 3.22.29. Have you tried any of the other calendars in Gnucash, there is one when you right mouse a transaction and try to schedule and then there are a couple when you open the report options for the sample report.
I've tried the schedule page, or the sample report properties, and it works fine there.
Well I do not know what is going on, I still can not reproduce when starting with LANG=fa_IR.UTF-8 gnucash When the calendar is popped, do the keys -+ change the day, shift-+ change the week and cntrl-+ change the year ? Is the default day correct, the same as the other calendars ? I have added a screenshot when started with above, are there any differences ? I am running out of ideas, as I can reproduce it is difficult for me to track down.
Created attachment 371635 [details] screenshot of calendar
Last line should of read... I am running out of ideas, as I can not reproduce, it is difficult for me to track down.
Setting LANG is not enough. Either log in with full fa_IR.UTF-8 locale, or try this which should work (I've not tested): export LC_ALL=fa_IR.UTF-8 gnucash (If didn't work, you might try settings LANG in addition to LC_ALL!)
Used your command and running locale gives me... LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fa_IR.UTF-8" LC_ALL=fa_IR.UTF-8 If I start Gnucash with LANG=fa_IR.UTF-8 gnucash I still can not reproduce your symptoms so I am stuck. It may help others if you specified your gtk+ version and are you using Wayland ?
No, I'm using Xorg. Gtk3: 3.22.30
I'm using Wayland, but same GTK version. Bob - what is your date format set to in preferences? If it's set to 'locale' for me it breaks; if I set it to something else, it works properly.
Czech is also very broken, for what it's worth.
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/351
Bill, my preference was UK. If I change that to local and use the commands above I see the failure, it did not occur to me to change that setting.
For people who are really bored and/or like spelunking: - 2007: the initial place GnuCash hit this was in 2.2 with Czech ('-'), Polish ('b'), Tamil, Nepalese, etc. - 2007: it was kicked to glibc for the Polish case (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4772) - 2007: the Polish locale data was changed via vote (!) because of this and related items (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4098) - 2013: strptime in glibc actually got fixed for the '-' case (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4772#c10) - 2014: Geert in 2.4 prep added the original patch to remove '-' with Czech as the motivation (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497831) ... and now we are here. (note: even with my proposed patches, Tamil and Nepalese are broken for manually editing dates, but they were beforehand.)
Bill, PR351 is merged (thanks). Can this be closed?
OK with me; up to you and your process how you want to close it.
