GnuCash - Newbie - Experiences / Questions

[Fien.Remerie]

Bill Gribble wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:38:02PM +0200, Fien.Remerie wrote:
> > 2) The QIF importing worked AMAZINGLY well ! Congratulations. I only
> > lost some time on language issues. I was using a Dutch version of Money.
> > It seems that this writes out QIF-files in Dutch !! (unbelievable in
> > fact that the datastructures are language dependent)
> 
> Yes, it is unbelievable.
> 
> >   a) warn somewhere in the importing process for this possible
> > difficulty
> >   b) build in here language dependency too.
> 
> I agree that (a) should be done, and (b) is already done.  However,
> it's not done using a real internationalization framework which would
> allow translations to be done easily.  Instead, you can add the
> translations to src/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm in the function
> 'qif-parse:parse-action-field'.  There are currently just English and
> German symbols there because those are the only ones I have examples
> for.  Please feel free to add the Dutch symbols you have translated.
> If you could use your version of Quicken to locate the complete list
> of investment transaction action types, that would be even better :)
> 

I guess this is misunderstood.

The problem with my importing was on the account type matching !

So I believe that the function to be extended would be
(qif-parse:parse-acct-type read-value).

However, a simple translation on this function alone did not work I
vaguely recall. I guess in other functions also some matching with
"cash" f.i. is done.

Anyway the account types that _Money_ (not necessarily Quicken) uses in
its
QIF output is in Dutch :

"Bank" -> "bank"
"Ov S" -> "oth l"
"Ov B" -> "oth a"
"Kas"  -> "cash"
"Ccard"-> "ccard"
"Invst"-> "invst"

Best regards,

Fien