Problems importing QIF files

[rneri at libero.it]

Hi, 
I would like to describe a problem I've experienced with Gnucash. 
 
I've started Gnucash 1.8.4 for the first time, and chosen to import my .qif files, which I had previously exported from an old (5.0) 
Italian version of MS Money. At the end of the process I found out that Gnucash had loaded some of the files, and discarded the 
others. 
 
I've tried again loading them altogether, I've tried loading them one by one, I've even tried creating a CoA with exactly matching 
names before importing, none of these did any good. 
 
Eventually, I've looked into the .qif files and found out that the files that Gnucash refused to import had the type (in the first record 
!Type) in Italian. I've edited them, rerun the import process from the beginning, and this time everything has been loaded correctly. 
 
I would like to point out that in discarding the unknown file types Gnucash had been very very quiet, no warning or error messages 
whatsoever, which did not really help me find out what the problem was. 
 
Finally, I would like to ask a question: if I had my LANG variable set to it_IT, instead of C, would it have made any difference? 
 
Regards 
 
Roberto