Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed Windows issues

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Sunday, April 22, 2012 03:35:55 PM Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 03:20:07PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > > > Just tested GNUmed 1.2 release candidate on Windows 7. Looks really
> > > > nice.
> > > > 
> > > > One problem I have seen is that unicode for € sign
> > > > (Euro) is represented as the unicode value U+20AC. Anything
> > > > that can be done about it ?
> > > 
> > > I am not sure I understand the problem you are describing ?
> > 
> > In e.g. the billing widget I see the string U20AC instead of €.
> 
> Not what I am seeing. Can you send a screenshot so we can be
> sure we are talking about exactly the same thing ?
> 
> In any case this is just data coming from the database. It
> sounds like Windows cannot cope with the Euro symbol ? Sure,
> that's been in use for only about a decode, I admit.
> 
> OTOH, one can just change the data to say EUR instead of the
> proper currency symbol (this functionality is a must anyways
> since not everyone does financial transactions in Euro).
> 

I will try to get a screenshot from Windows. What I mean is:

Whereever you see the currency symbol € in the plugin it is exchanged for the 
string U20AC when running on Windows 7.

so 20€ become 20U20AC

Sebastian