Debian bug: QIF import causes data loss

[David Hampton]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:49 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > The first thing that comes to mind is "The QIF importer doesn't deal
> > with charset/encoding and doesn't do any kind of conversion", which
> > would mean that it's possible to push a non-utf8 character string into
> > the data set through the importer.  That could be what's happening.
> 
> Uh huh, that would be a problem!  Once I get some test files that
> demonstrate the bug from the submitter, I'll verify that I can produce
> it and file it in bugzilla.

If nothing else, the various gnucash importers should check that the
data is valid utf8 during import.

David