r18883 - gnucash/trunk/src/gnome-utils - Bug #525821 new or edited account names should be checked for reserved chars like ":"

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Geert Janssens <gjanssens at code.gnucash.org> writes:
> > Author: gjanssens
> > Date: 2010-03-09 17:50:08 -0500 (Tue, 09 Mar 2010)
> > New Revision: 18883
> > Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18883
> >
> > Modified:
> >    gnucash/trunk/src/gnome-utils/dialog-account.c
> > Log:
> > Bug #525821 new or edited account names should be checked for reserved
> > chars like ":"
> 
> What about if the user changes the separator character?
> 
> -derek
> 
There's an easy and a tricky part to that.

The easy part:
After the user changed the separator character, he won't be able to use this 
new separator character for account names (new or edited).

The tricky part:
If the user has existing account names which already contain the new separator 
character, that goes by unnoticed and the user will experience the same error 
as described in the bug.

I will reopen the bug with a comment regarding this.

Geert