common accounts for el_GR

[Derek Atkins]

It's on the list for the gnome2 port (since everything is utf8 in
gnome2)

-derek

Reinke Bonte <reinke.bonte at web.de> writes:

> It's a bit off topic, but wouldn't it be a good idea to store the data
> at least in the correct encoding in the XML file. It should be UTF-8 or
> an encoding which is named in the head. At the moment all non Latin-1
> data is forced to Latin-1 and then translated into HTML-entities. This
> ensures that the file can only be opened under the same encoding,
> because then this strange procedure is reversed. 
> 
> I had tried to fix this, but my C knowledge is very limited. Somehow
> libxml1 does not behave as I expect it to and I couldn't get gnucash
> work with libxml2, which fixes the internationalization problems of
> libxml1. Once gnucash uses libxml2, it is a very easy fix, one just need
> to convert all char variables to UTF-8 before casting them XMLchar.
> 
> Repairing this would be great help for everyone who works in more than
> one encoding. I have to filter the XML file through a recode shell
> script which imitates the GNUcash conversion procedure each time I want
> to work in another encoding.
> 
> Reinke
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 12:44, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:52:44PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> > > Well, it DOES live under el_GR/...  so it's quite clear (once it's
> > > in the hierarchy) that it's greek.
> > 
> > yes, I know.  But since I was recently burned by the fact that
> > some vital info about a chunk of data failed to travel with the data
> > itself, it got me to thinking.   Its now like a design pattern
> > in my head, or more like a conspiracy theory: everywehere I turn,
> > I see this little problem...
> > 
> > --linas
> > 
> > p.s. yes, I have a list of about 10 items I need to do to modernize the
> > gnucash website. I'm getting to it.  I just spent the last two evenings
> > fighting off gremlins again, this time on a different server. 
> 
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