AUDIT: r17489 - gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import - Bug #141003: QIF Import: Allow the British Pound symbol and the dollar symbol to be used interchangeably.

[Charles Day]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Charles Day <cedayiv at cvs.gnucash.org> writes:
>
> > Modified:
> >    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-file.scm
> >    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-objects.scm
> >    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-parse.scm
> > Log:
> > Bug #141003: QIF Import: Allow the British Pound symbol and the dollar
> symbol to be used interchangeably.
>
> Why limit it just to the British Pound symbol?  Wouldn't it be
> better to allow it to be any currency, or maybe the 'locale
> currency'?  Or do we really need to explicitly add a list of
> currency symbols?
>

The issue only appears to have come up for the British Pound symbol, so I
left it at that. If someone finds a need to support a third symbol, or
support multi-byte currency symbols, or support textual designations such as
"USD", then that's obviously going to require more changes, perhaps even
allowing any series of non-numeric bytes before and after the actual value.
But I don't know if that leaves the door too wide open, since "TESTING 123"
would be considered valid.

Since doing it this way was such a small change, I decided to just get it
done.


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