[Bug 61031] New: Author Name doesn't accept special characters

[Amilcar do Carmo Lucas]

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           Summary: Author Name doesn't accept special characters
           Product: kdevelop
           Version: 3.0.0a5
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdevelop-devel at kdevelop.org
        ReportedBy: a.lucas at tu-bs.de


Version:           3.0.0a5 (using KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-64GB-SMP

Bug reported by Ian Wadham:

I found a small bug in "Project, New".  I entered Author Name
as "Ian Wadham & Marco Krüger" (Marco was the original
author of KGoldrunner, back in KDE 1).  When generating
the project, I got a message box "Sorry - Gideon", with the
message "This is not a valid project file.  XML error in line 4,
column 25: letter is expected."
 
Problem 1: NO project was generated.
Problem 2: the ampersand was actually at line 4, column 24
in the ".kdevelop" file (as checked with "vim").
 
Another small bug with author names, maybe not so
small if you are from Germany ... :-)
 
This time I entered "Ian Wadham and Marco Krüger"
in the Project, New dialog and the project was generated
OK.  It was a "C++, KDE Application framework" project.
However, when I executed the generated program, its
"Help, About" item showed Marco's family name as "Krger"
(no "u umlaut") and so did the Project Options dialog.  The
"u umlaut" appeared correctly in the header templates of the
.h and .cpp files and in the code to create KAboutData and
execute the addAuthor method.
 
Maybe this is a bug in KAboutData or one of the classes
it and KDevelop use.  The font in both KDevelop and the
generated application was Nimbus Sans 1 and it CAN
handle a "u umlaut" (I checked that with KWord).