Problem with special chars in Account names

[Christian Stimming]

Thomas Spahni schrieb:

> Normally it is considered good practise to fix severe bugs before going to
> the next major release, but it appears Gnome developers disagree. Do we
> all have to upgrade to "experimental" Gnome-2 or will the capability to
> handle standard character sets like ISO 8859-1 be backported to Guppi
> versions compatible with current Gnome?

I repeat: This Guppi bug won't be fixed before Gnome-2 comes out, and it will
be fixed at the same time as when Guppi switches to the Gnome-2 libraries.
There is nothing the Gnucash developers can do before 1. Gnome-2 comes and 2.
Guppi makes the transition to use it.

> I feel somewhat uneasy when a truly brilliant software, which by itself
> appears quite stable, depends on tools in some pre-Alpha state.

Are you talking of Gnome-2? We don't depend on it, currently, and except for
this Guppi issue there's no need to depend on it in near future.

> May I
> suggest to amend the gnc docu in BOLD print to discourage the use of
> non-ascii characters in all account names.

Right, this would be a good thing to do.

Christian