Gnucash 2.0.2 looses transactions if the file contains special characters

[Stephane Carrez]

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Hi!

I've migrated my accounts from Gnucash 1.8 to Gnucash 2.02.  My accounts contain
several transactions with latin1 characters.  During the conversion, some
translation from iso-latin1 to utf-8 was made.  The special characters are
used for the transaction description (<act:description>).

I've then worked on the accounts (OFX import, price editor, reports), saved the file
and exited Gnucash.

Once I've re-started Gnucash 2.0.2, *many* *many* of the transactions in several
accounts have *disappeared*.  Some of the transactions were created more than a year ago
and there were gone!  Quite frightening at that point!!!

I tried to re-launch Gnucash with --debug --loglevel 6 on a backup file, still the same
problem and no message to understand what happened.

The good news is that the saved Gnucash 2.0.2 file *does* contain these missing transactions.
So, after de-compressing the Gnucash file (it's a gzip XML), I've imported the file in
Grisby (http://www.grisbi.org/) and during the import it barks at the special characters.
After editing the XML, replacing the special characters, Gnucash was able to read and
retrieve all the transactions.

If it happens to you, do:
- - do not save (because the missing transactions will really be removed from the file)
- - if you've saved, get a backup of the file
- - decompress the file with gzip
- - edit the file and replace every special character with an ascii character
- - load the file in Gnucash until you see again the missing transactions


Stephane

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