Re[2]: German Translation of Tool

[Rusty Carruth]

lmb <lars@marowsky-bree.de> wrote:
> On 2002-01-02T14:02:17,
>    "Robert A. Uhl" <ruhl@4dv.net> said:
> 
> > > Is this related to the fact that umlauts used in text "disappear" when the
> > > first report is opened (if there are accounts with umlauts), and that no
> > > umlauts can be entered further on, making gnucash literally unuseable for
> > > German users?
> > Well, one can always resort to the vowel+e hack...
> 
> *sigh* Yeah. I am busy converting all my account names right now. Can I do a
> regex replace on the XML files? ;-)

I'd like to know if the following is a 'safe' way to do what you are asking,
but differently than you probably thought ;-)

Here's the scheme:

copy your current guncash file to a new file (I seem to only have one 'real' 
file for my accounts, with lots of logs and such also - am I correct?  If not,
then copy ALL the needed files to a new name).

Then, you can use xemacs, sed, awk, perl, or whatever you wish to modify
your xml file(s).

A while back someone asked about how to cross years, and this is the approach
I want to try out (delete all transactions, but leave the accounts).  Unless someone
has a better approach which I missed...

rc


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