Problem with special chars in Account names

[Christian Stimming]

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On Wednesday 30 January 2002 16:50, Otto Müller wrote:
> I didn't use the charts before. But now when I take a look a the
> pie-chart (or the bar-chart) I get some other phenomenon that in my
> account
>  <act:name>Reparaturen &amp; Instandhaltung</act:name> the spaces and
> the ampersand are not shown at all. This results in
> "ReparaturenInstandhaltung". The same is with all accounts containing a
> "german umlaut" in its name.
>
> Another account <act:name>Square Dance</act:name> shows up all correct.
>
> Is this a problem of locale? I have set LANG=de_DE@euro.
>
> My system is a SuSE-Linux 7.3 (out of the box) with Gnucash 1.6.2 and
> Guppi 0.35.5-88.

This is a Guppi problem and it affects all current Guppi versions. Firstly, 
the quoting of ampersands isn't handled correct inside Guppi, causing strings 
with an ampersand in it to disappear completely. This needs to be fixed. (The 
Guppi xml parser needs a serious overhaul.) Secondly, Guppi is currently 
unable to display non-ascii characters. This makes strings with non-ascii 
characters (e.g. german umlauts) look weird. This will be fixed as soon as 
Guppi makes the transition to the GNOME-2 libraries, whose schedule can be 
seen here http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/schedule/

I'll try to talk to the Guppi developer about that this weekend.

Christian
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