[KPhotoAlbum] git: Problems with German Umlaute as tokens

[Miika Turkia]

Seems that we are using ASCII for the Tokens, thus support for special
characters is unlikely. Or at least it would be quite an effort.

I just went ahead and disabled the Assign mode when inserting Tokens.
So trying to add e.g. umlaut tokens will not take you to the
Assignment mode.

miika

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
> You have hit the possibility to enter keywords straight from the
> viewer. http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/kphotoalbum/category-selectors-in-viewer.html
>
> Of course this should not work the way the ö is currently working
> (I'll take a look at the source as I do have a hunch on what area of
> code this is occurring). BTW I have quit using the tokens almost
> completely since learning about the possibility to enter full keywords
> from the viewer.
>
> miika
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Martin Jost <lists at majo.name> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I came across a problem with (nearly) current KPA from git:
>>>> git log | head
>>> commit 37ff44e2abf2ee046ce4a5bd478e2a34f3f09c14 Author: Jesper K.
>>> Pedersen <blackie at kde.org> Date:   Fri Aug 24 21:59:35 2012 +0200
>>>
>>> Changed when the thumbnail cycler is active Now it is always active,
>>> unless the cursor is over an image that is selected and the control
>>> key is pressed down This allows contrl+plus/minus to work to chaning
>>> the current video image, while maximizing the visibility of the
>>> thumbnail cyckling
>>
>>
>> I (somewhat accidentally) tried to enter a German Umlaut (in my case
>> 'ö') as token, when the foto was visible in the viewer: (By just typing
>> the letter)
>> The attached screenshot shows, what I got:
>> The token 'T', which I entered before ended up as expected.
>> But the 'ö' is now shown as
>> "Zuweisen: Tokens/öt" (first line)
>> The 't' ended up here, when I type 't' another time. Normally, it should
>> have reverted the present token 't'.
>>
>> When I closed the viewer and selected the another foto in the viewer and
>> then again this one, the "Zuweisen: Tokens/öt" was no longer present.
>>
>> When I saved the index.xml, only the token 't' ended up there. There was
>> nothing to be seen of the 'ö' and the second 't'.
>>
>> I later tried entering 'ö' again (same result). When changing between
>> fotos in the viewer with [PageUp]/[PageDown], the "Zuweisen: Tokens/öt"
>> was then to be seen on each of the fotos. (Without entering it again)
>>
>> Other Umlaute (äüß) behaved in the same way, also ''#' and '*'.
>> (Although I didn't try all chars on my keyboard...)
>>
>> This behaviour is somewhat surprising. As an ideal solution I would like
>> the possibility to use all chars as tokens, as long as the character has
>> no special meaning in the viewer (like '+' and '-')
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> (Probably boring) background: I like and use the possibility to enter
>> tokens in the viewer, by just entering the letter very much. In fact I
>> usually do all the tagging for names by viewing the fotos and entering
>> the first letter of the name as token. In a second step I select the
>> tokened fotos and set the real name, then remove the token.
>> Because there is a big chance of overlap between the first char of the
>> names, as soon as I have more than a few people on the fotos from one
>> session, I would like as much chars as possible. Because I also use
>> tokens for special meanings (like 'd' for "garbage, *D*elete it, or 't'
>> for tokenized - all names complete) I would like to shift this off to
>> some of the special chars like '#', ',', ...
>>
>>
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