Debian bug: QIF import causes data loss

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:

> Aye, we've taken a look at this bug in particular, and talked about the
> issue for a while.  While all the accounting in bugzilla isn't squared
> away yet (funny, that), we've filed
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344219 , which is
> 2.0.0-targeted.  Obviously, the various importers should actually dialog
> with the user about the import file encoding, and do the conversion at
> the front-end of the import.  But I don't see a change of that scope
> happening for 2.0 at this point, so I think 344219 is going to be the
> "fix" in the 2.0 timeframe.

Yep, this will certainly solve the criticalness of the bug and
radically reduce its severity.  Thanks for the heads up.  

Thomas