1.8 data file crashes on 2.2.6

[knndy5 at fuse.net]

---- "\"Andreas Köhler\"" <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote: 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> knndy5 at fuse.net wrote:
> > Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote: 
> > > Interesting!
> > > What encoding did you choose?
> > > 
> > > If you compiled GnuCash from source, does putting the g_iconv_close()
> > > at line 591 into the if branch above change anything? Is iconv -1 at
> > all?
> > > You might want to play with g_warning() to output some stuff, if you
> > have
> > > problems setting a breakpoint, which can be tricky indeed[1].
> > 
> > I didn't build from source but instead used the windows binary from
> > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-2.2.6-setup.exe?modtime=1217496210&big_mirror=1
> 
> Ok.
> 
> I misread the code that failed and now I see that there has not been showed a dialog
> to choose the encoding from for you.
> So my next question addresses your locale
> (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Determining_the_locale) :-)
> 
> Ciao,
> -- andi5
> 
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The control panel says the locale is "English (United States)", language is "Western Europe and United States". After moving the lang.exe file to the gnucash bin directory it reports:

C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>lang.exe
Locale: en_US

Thx
Tim