Bug 5755

Summary: Accents in capital letters during the installation (Greek)
Product: Mageia Reporter: Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Low CC: almaza24map
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48314
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: glibc CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-05-05 10:46:34 CEST 
Since Mandriva 2009.1 https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48314 the titles of each screen in the installer are in uppercase letters. You can see some screen-shots here: http://docteam.mageia.nl/el/installer/content/images/  . 
In Greek language the capital letters are used without accents. It gives an ugly aspect which gives a first negative impression.

I'd like to find a solution to have the words in capital without accents
I think that it could be easy if i translate these phrases without accents in lowercase so when they will be converted they will not have accents.
But i dont know if those sentences are used only in installer , or they are used in other places too which will give spelling errors. If this solution is the better one, there is a "tag" or something that i can distinct the sentences in titles in the po files ?

Another example, someone to correct this in websites, did this in css :
http://leonart.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/κεÏαλαίοι-ελληνικοί-ÏαÏακÏήÏεÏ-ÏÏÏί/

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=el_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fleonart.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F30%2F%25CE%25BA%25CE%25B5%25CF%2586%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B1%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF%25CE%25B9-%25CE%25B5%25CE%25BB%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B7%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BA%25CE%25BF%25CE%25AF-%25CF%2587%25CE%25B1%25CF%2581%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BA%25CF%2584%25CE%25AE%25CF%2581%25CE%25B5%25CF%2582-%25CF%2587%25CF%2589%25CF%2581%25CE%25AF%2F


Another solution could be , while converting to uppercase, to use a function as above to convert the Greek letters to letters without accents.
Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-05 15:32:48 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-06 05:22:10 CEST 
Those CSS "fixes" really are ugly and in no way are a real fix

Priority: Normal => Low
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-06 05:42:59 CEST 
This is not an installer bug.
Both C/C++[0][1] (using glib) and perl[2] do the same thing and keep accents when using the el locale.

eg:
$ perl -e 'use locale; use utf8; print uc("ÎκκίνηÏη ΡÏθμιÏη ÏÎ¿Ï Î§ // ΡÏθμιÏη\n")'
Wide character in print at -e line 1.
ÎÎÎÎÎÎΣΠΡÎÎÎÎΣΠΤÎÎ¥ Χ // ΡÎÎÎÎΣÎ

Which is the right thing according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics#Upper_case

[0] using wchar.h & towupper()
[1] http://kakollu.blogspot.fr/2010/11/how-to-convert-utf-8-to-upper-case-in-c.html
[2] perl -e 'use locale; use utf8;warn uc("ÎκκίνηÏη ΡÏθμιÏη ÏÎ¿Ï Î§ // ΡÏθμιÏη")'

Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => glibc
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquad
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 3 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-05-06 07:50:29 CEST 
I think that the treatment of perl and C takes in charge character by character. While the capital letter takes an accent when it is in the first position of a lowercase word, when all letters are in capital it looses the punctuation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics#Position_in_letters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Accents
Comment 4 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-05-06 10:01:18 CEST 
It is described well in this article:
 http://multilingualtypesetting.co.uk/blog/greek-typesetting-tips/
Comment 5 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-05-06 12:00:49 CEST 
A similar case in mozilla bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307039
Roman Jay Almaza 2021-08-12 01:30:45 CEST

CC: (none) => almaza24map