Importing QIF fails

[Beth Leonard]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:19:02PM -0800, Ron Pepper wrote:
> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
> qif-split:parse-category : can't parse Int Income
> 
> Last line reads as above, but copies as:
> qif-split:parse-category : can't parse \uffffInt Income
> 
> Don't know what this means exactly, but I guess the error is somewhere in
> interest income. Any ideas about how to isolate this further?

I'm not a dev, but it smells like a UTF8 problem to me.  Gnucash
doesn't support UTF8 yet, so you have to run it in a non-UTF8 LOCALE.
For info on how to do that, see:

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_make_reports_not_display_the_same_strange_character_.28e.g._dashed_outlined_box.29_before_each_desired_character.3F

--Beth 
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