Bug: Accounts with umlauts seldom work

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
19 Nov 2001 01:05:01 -0800


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On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 11:46, lmb wrote:
> Hi guys,
>=20
> I am running into a most obscure bug here; using 1.6.4 on SuSE 7.3. When =
I
> started, I created an account hierarchy using the templates available. Th=
ose
> account names contain German umlauts.
>=20
> Now, after some time of quite successfully using it, I am running into a
> problem: I cannot enter the account names (nor select them from the list!=
) any
> longer! Of course, this is quite annoying, because it means I can't enter=
 new
> transactions ;-)
>=20
> It is spewing errors like:
>=20
> Error: gnc_quickfill_insert: bad text conversion
> Error: gnc_mbstowcs: bad multi-byte conversion
> Error: gnucash_sheet_modify_curre...(): bad text: Aktiva:Barverm=F6gen:Ba=
rgeld
> Error: gnc_mbstowcs: bad multi-byte conversion
>=20
> at me.
>=20
> Do you have any hints on how to fix this?

Did you recently upgrade libc? That is where the text
conversion happens.

dave


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