QIF Import created spurious accounts

[Ian Lewis]

2007/12/13, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
> "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.


Ok, This is a different bug than the one I submitted. This specifically
refers to the locale rather than just the flow of the QIF import druid. I
could imagine that the solution is perhaps the same for both bugs however.

> 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)
>

Hmm, Changing the default currency in the gnucash preferences seems to allow
me to import the QIF with that currency, i.e. It doesn't create the extra
accounts, which is what I would expect. Why would it use the system locale
currency when it could use the gnucash default currency?

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