problem with qif-parse.scm in trunk

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Quoting David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:
>>
>> >
>> > On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >
>> >> David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> As it exists currently, qif-parse.scm does not work, even with the
>> >>> escaped version of a3. However, if I change \xa3 to \\xa3, gnucash
>> >>> will run. That looks like a escaping/quoting inconsistency among
>> >>> systems. Is that any easier to solve than the base encoding problem?
>> >>
>> >> If you change it to \\xa3 then does it properly deal with the £ in
>> >> the QIF?
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >> -derek
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't know. Is there a sample qif file I can test? What will I be
>> > looking for?
>>
>> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141003
>>
>
> Doubling up the backslashes should break the fix, as then the backslash
> loses its special regex expression meaning.
>

Sorry, wrong attachment on the previous message. I've now attached the
correct one.  -Charles


>
> Please see the simple QIF file attached. It contains the British Pound
> symbol in ISO 8859-1 (0xA3). This is what the QIF importer needs to be able
> to handle. Here is the output of 'od':
> $ od -c 141003a.qif
> 0000000   !   A   c   c   o   u   n   t  \n   N   M   y       C   r   e
> 0000020   d   i   t       C   a   r   d  \n   T   C   C   a   r   d  \n
> 0000040   ^  \n   !   T   y   p   e   :   C   C   a   r   d  \n   D   2
> 0000060   2   /   0   9   /   2   0   0   8  \n   P   T   e   s   t
> 0000100   p   a   y   e   e  \n   T 243   3   8   .   4   6  \n   ^  \n
> 0000120
>
> -Charles
>
>
>> > Dave
>> > --
>> > David Reiser
>> > dbreiser at earthlink.net
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> --
>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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