QIF Import created spurious accounts

[Derek Atkins]

"Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:

> 2007/12/12, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
>     "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > Hmm.  Selecting an account that has different currency than the locale
>     > currency makes gnucash do things I wouldn't expect. It creates a new
>     account
>     > with the locale currency instead of using the currency of the account
>     that I
>     > selected. Wouldn't using the currency for the account that I selected
>     for
>     > importing that file make more sense?
>    
>     Not particularly; the QIF currency should matter.
>
> I agree but since the QIF currency might not match the locale currency, you
> should be able to select the QIF currency during import. There seems to be a
> part of the QIF import druid for this but it never seems to come up for me.
> The QIF import druid just uses the locale currency.

Right, and THAT is the bug that needs to be fixed.

> BTW: By locale currency were are talking about the currency that is set in the
> preferences dialog (defaults to locale currency) right?

Nope.  The locale currency is the currency you see in your
computer locale.   See locale(1)

-derek

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