Czech special characters

[Blechpirat]

Describe the bug I added a book by Eduard Petiška. The first time the system created an author named Eduard Petiska (replacing š with s), when I tried to correct that, the book was saved without an author.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to add book
2. Add Eduard Petiška as (sole) author
3. Save
4. Eduard Petiska is suggested. I selected him
5. Saved again
6. Open the book again.
7. delete Eduard Petiska, add Eduard Petiška
8. save, choose new author
9. author field is empty

Expected behavior I expected UTF-8, since other special characters (like german umlauts) worked well.

Instance books.karsten-voigt.de

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux Mint
• Browser Firefox
• 111.0.1

I recently updated my bookwyrm to 0.6.

[Blechpirat]

Someone replicated the error on buecher.pnpde.social

[WesleyAC]

Tried this on my dev setup, and was able to import the book successfully:

and add a second author with the same name in the edit screen:

And bookwyrm.social appears to have the correct accent.

I'm curious if books.karsten-voigt.de or buecher.pnpde.social have a weird locale, if you are the admin of one of these, could you run bw-dev dbshell, then run SHOW LC_CTYPE; in that shell and report the output?

[WesleyAC]

Oh, hmm, reading the report more thoroughly, it seems like the problem is that "Eduard Petiska" is in the system, making it hard/impossible to add the correct name? I still can't reproduce this, though, when I try to edit the name I get a screen like this:

Do you not see that?

[Blechpirat]

I did only see the Author without the special character s - I could either choose him (which world work) or select "This is a new author" which would leave the author file empty.

I'm running books.karsten-voigt.de. Bookwyrm is inside a docker.

bookwyrm=# SHOW LC_CTYPE;
  lc_ctype  
------------
 en_US.utf8
(1 row)

bookwyrm=# 

I tried to change the book once more. It looks like this to me:

But this time, saving the author worked as expected. Is this a change between 0.6 and the previous version? Because buecher.pnpde.social reported the same problem...