1.8 data file crashes on 2.2.6

[knndy5 at fuse.net]

---- knndy5 at fuse.net wrote: 
> ---- "\"Andreas Köhler\"" <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote: 
> > Hi Tim,
> > 
> > knndy5 at fuse.net wrote:
> > > Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote: 
> > > > Interesting!
> > > > What encoding did you choose?
> > > > 
> > > > If you compiled GnuCash from source, does putting the g_iconv_close()
> > > > at line 591 into the if branch above change anything? Is iconv -1 at
> > > all?
> > > > You might want to play with g_warning() to output some stuff, if you
> > > have
> > > > problems setting a breakpoint, which can be tricky indeed[1].
> > > 
> > > I didn't build from source but instead used the windows binary from
> > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-2.2.6-setup.exe?modtime=1217496210&big_mirror=1
> > 
> > Ok.
> > 
> > I misread the code that failed and now I see that there has not been showed a dialog
> > to choose the encoding from for you.
> > So my next question addresses your locale
> > (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Determining_the_locale) :-)
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > -- andi5
> > 
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> 
> The control panel says the locale is "English (United States)", language is "Western Europe and United States". After moving the lang.exe file to the gnucash bin directory it reports:
> 
> C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>lang.exe
> Locale: en_US
> 
> Thx
> Tim

I have also tried installing 2.2.6 on XP. I am able to read the 1.8 file, however, the balances are all way off. I'm not sure how long it will be before I have the Linux box back up so I can't say if reading the 1.8 file with 2.2.6 on Linux is successful or not.

Thx
Tim