Account Names

[David Ryder]

Is there some insurmountable reason the account can not be called "BF
Bal" or similar?

David

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:34 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:
> 
> > The problem with your solution is that "B/F Bal" is going to be clearly
> > understood by anyone reading the accounts, whereas "B-F Bal" could mean
> > pretty much anything.  When programming this sort of stuff, sanity
> > checking the input is absolutely fundamental, and this includes ensuring
> > that the input contains only the permitted character set.  If the
> > character *is* accepted then it should just work, like any other
> > character.  Either way, the reported behaviour is a bug.
> 
> Which input do you sanitize?
> 
> The problem here is that you can create an account with a special
> character that's perfectly legal and then later change your separator
> character to that same character you used earlier.
> 
> Feel free to send in a patch that does a full recursive account name
> character check prior to allowing the user to change the directory
> separator...
> 
> > Colin
> 
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> 
> -derek
>