[IIAB] [XSCE] Accent character display issues fixed

Wed Sep 4 14:41:16 PDT 2013

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The accent display issues in French (and other languages) has been
fixed.  The fix is in IIAB version 0.4.12 now available in the yum
repository.

- -braddock

On 09/04/2013 10:46 AM, Braddock wrote:
> On 09/01/2013 01:12 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
>> Braddock, Might you also know why accents appear wrong within 
>> IIAB's French Wikipedia?
> 
> Hi Adam, I've opened an issue ticket on this: 
> https://github.com/braddockcg/internet-in-a-box/issues/77
> 
> It is due to inconsistent language encodings in the wikipedia dumps
> we get from the Kiwix project.  We need to hack around it (and
> have indeed tried, but obviously not well enough).
> 
> -braddock
> 
> 
>> For example the very main page of 
>> http://schoolserver/iiab/zim/iframe/wikipedia_fr_all_09_2012
>> shows in both schools here in Haiti as:
> 
>> *   WikipÃ©dia* est une encyclopÃ©die 
>> <http://schoolserver/iiab/zim/wikipedia_fr_all_09_2012/A/Encyclop%C3%83%C2%A9die.html>
>
>> 
> 
> multilingue, universelle et librement diffusable
>> <http://schoolserver/iiab/zim/wikipedia_fr_all_09_2012/A/%C3%85%C2%92uvre%20libre.html>.
>
>>  Which should appear as:
> 
>> *Wikipédia* est une encyclopédie 
>> <http://schoolserver/iiab/zim/wikipedia_fr_all_09_2012/A/Encyclop%C3%83%C2%A9die.html>
>
>> 
> 
> multilingue, universelle et librement diffusable
>> <http://schoolserver/iiab/zim/wikipedia_fr_all_09_2012/A/%C3%85%C2%92uvre%20libre.html>.
>
>> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org 
>> <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Anish Mangal 
>> <anish at activitycentral.com <mailto:anish at activitycentral.com>> 
>> wrote:
> 
>> I didn't say upgrade your whole world to 13.2.0. I only said 
>> upgrade *one* machine to check if it works. We can start to
>> narrow down the problem from there, and hopefully come up with a
>> solution which works on 11.3.x itself.  :-)
> 
> 
>> If someone can do this above test outside of Haiti it'd of
>> course be great!  Is there a hidden but public URL for IIAB's 
>> OpenStreetMap folks like Kevix might try?
> 
>> (Sorry we generally cannot download OS's to Haiti for obvious 
>> reasons.)
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org 
>> <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
> 
>> As John Watlington has stated so many times, engineers who
>> expect deployments to upgrade to every new software release for
>> the latest toys, "don't have a clue about education."
> 
>> In short, Haitian schools generally use Release 11.3.1 given 
>> their/our heavy earlier training investment in 
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick And the fact that 
>> Release 13.x builds are not useful on XO-1s -- being far too
>> slow at this time.  Release 12.1.0 we would have LOVED to
>> consider back in March, but for its lack of Customization Stick.
>> All of which has been discussed on this list and others
>> repeatedly, thanks to James Cameron etc, guiding others in
>> similar grassroots deployment situations.  By early 2014 we can
>> hopefully review this decision towards a new build for XO-1s in
>> Haiti, if funds can hopefully be found to retrain Haitians, with
>> a new method for individual community schools to customize their
>> Activities along the lines of 
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder !?
> 
>> Until then, hopefully Braddock (whose explicit design goal for 
>> Internet-in-a-Box is that it be browsable on Windows 95) can
>> tell us why or why not IIAB's OpenStreetMap can't be viewed on an
>> OS released 17 years later (Release 11.3.1 ;)
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:aschoolf at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Honestly?  My initial reaction is that y'all should update the
>> XOs to 13.2.0-13.  I understand that might not be feasible.  But
>> it's extremely unlikely we can rework server services to
>> accommodate ancient XO builds in the next few days.  I don't know
>> what we're supposed to do.
> 
>> Anna
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org 
>> <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
> 
>> Braddock, Anna & All,
> 
>> IIAB's tiny OpenStreetMap zoom buttons ("+" sign and "-" sign)
>> do load on XO-1s here in Haiti, but unfortunately nothing else
>> loads (no actual maps).
> 
>> Getting these IIAB maps to load on XO-1s is critical (if we can
>> in the few days we have left in Haiti, God Willing!!) given the
>> rest of IIAB has been very frustrating to Haitians who don't
>> comprehend written French, given their mother tongue is Creole
>> :/
> 
>> PS a few of the most advanced kids played with and searched thru 
>> article titles with IIAB's French Wikipedia on their XO-1s,
>> which works but French accents are quite badly mangled (each
>> accented character shows up as 2 "random" characters, rendering
>> the text almost unreadable in many cases. Apparently regardless
>> whether the XO's set to English, French or Haitian Creole -- but
>> we reneed to retest all 3 Sunday.  (Of course kids spend their
>> entire time searching for "Real Madrid" and other useless sports
>> trivia, the mangled French accents hardly matter, but still one
>> hopes this is one day leading to more intellectual literacy
>> Beyond the Boob Tube)
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:22 PM, George Hunt 
>> <georgejhunt at gmail.com <mailto:georgejhunt at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Adam was really the first tester of IIAB on a XO1 (os-11.3.1).
>> He said that the first page of the map application just didn't
>> load in 5 minutes.
> 
>> I replicated the test, on an XO1, and then ran "top" in another 
>> terminal. It did not look like a cpu issue -- still id=50%.
> 
>> I used my macbookpro9.1, in a side by side query to the map
>> opening page, and everything worked well, and snappy. So maybe
>> the best we can do is identify what resource is the bottleneck.
> 
>> There were no entries in /var/log/messages -- sometimes i"ve
>> seen an Out Of Memory daemon leaving a big footprint-- No
>> diagnostic messages pop out at me.
> 
>> Might you work with Anna, to set up an XO1, to help up figure
>> out what's happening?
> 
>> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @
>> http://unleashkids.org !
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>> -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @
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>> -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @
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