Bug 494808

Summary: Characters with diacritics are not displayed
Product: [Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons Reporter: Johnny Wezel <spam1>
Component: WeatherAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: isma.af, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.1.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Johnny Wezel 2024-10-15 12:07:27 UTC
Created attachment 174849 [details]
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SUMMARY

Characters with diacritics are not displayed

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Select a location with a diacritic in the name, like Hünenberg

OBSERVED RESULT

Name is displayed as Hnenberg, Zug, CH

EXPECTED RESULT

Name is displayed as Hünenberg, Zug, CH

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.11.0-8-generic #8-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-11-27 20:08:19 UTC
Can reproduce.
Comment 2 Ismael Asensio 2024-11-27 20:49:05 UTC
This is unfortunately an issue of the station list that the Deustche Wetterdienst (DWD) provides, which uses just ascii. This means the diphthongs use their expanded version and ß is expressed as "ss".

We make sure to still find those locations when using diacritics on the search text, but cannot convert the other way around because it is not always a valid conversion (specially for places in other languages than German)