problem with qif-parse.scm in trunk

[Derek Atkins]

David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:

>> Looks like it is coming from Apple's libSystem.dylib. I'll see if I
>> can find someone who knows about any Apple regex oddities.
>
> Well, here's some Apple regex oddity: The regex parser apparently  
> doesn't like higher-than-ascii utf-8 unless the file it's working on  
> starts with a utf-8 BOM (0xefbbbf). I can't even grep qif-parse.scm  
> for the GBP symbol -- there is no output from the grep command. If I  
> use bbedit to prepend the three hex bytes to the file, then grep  
> successfully finds the symbols. But if the .scm file starts with the  
> BOM, gnucash launch now fails with:

Interesting!  Do you have the Gnu Regex library available?  What if
you explicitly link against that instead of using the regex in Apple's
libc?

-derek
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