Input Chinese characters at Unit field reported an error

[weizhangny]

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• [X] I checked and didn't find a similar issue

Describe the bug*

In old version 0.11 doesn't report an issue; the new version reported an error after system migration. I have found a workaround method - In administrator mode, add a physical unit for the international characters - both name and symbol need be the Chinese unit name.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to “Add new part"
2. Input Chinese characters "个“ at field "Unit"
3. Click submit

Expected behaviour

measurement unit error

Deployment Method

• [X] Docker
• [ ] Bare metal

Version Information

0.13.5

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• [ ] I can reproduce this bug on the demo site.

Relevant log output

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[SchrodingersGat]

I have found a workaround method - In administrator mode, add a physical unit for the international characters - both name and symbol need be the Chinese unit name.

This is probably what you are going to have to do - create custom physical units as needed. InvenTree already provides a way to add custom units on top of the pint conversion library (which as far as I can tell, does not support multi-lingual support).

So, I would suggest that you add these custom units as required.

[weizhangny]

The workaround (add physical unit) is not stable. Now when I edit a part, the unit measurement appear again. I suggest that reopen this issue. Probably just after I modified/added the physical unit, the part edit/add seems to work; after some days, it wouldn't work any more.

[SchrodingersGat]

@weizhangny can you please provide some more information about your latest comment. Some screenshots and examples would be really helpful.

[weizhangny]

Just after I added a new custom physical unit, the error was not generated. After a while, the unit error came up consistently. The Chinese word is "个“ or "次". hopefully you can input the word and reproduce the issue.

[weizhangny]

[SchrodingersGat]

Have you tried updating to the latest version? This seems to work ok in 0.14.x:

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