Gnucash 2.0.2 and 2.2.1 looses transactions if the file contains special characters

[Derek Atkins]

Did you import this transaction using 2.2.1?  The importer should
ignore any non-UTF8 characters and remove them from the strings.

-derek

Quoting Stephane Carrez <stcarrez at nerim.fr>:

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> Hi!
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> In February, I reported this issue on Gnucash 2.0.2.  See:
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> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-February/019333.html
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> I am now using Gnucash 2.2.1 and there is still the same issue.
> Here is how I reproduced it:
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> - - In an OFX file (that came from by bank), I had the special character '°'
>  (in a <REFNUM>)
> - - The OFX file was imported and all the transactions were Ok.
> - - When the .cash file is saved, it contains this line:
>
>   <trn:num>02140° XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</trn:num>
>
>  The special character appears after the '02140' and it is not a valid UTF-8
>  character.
> - - Later when gnucash tries to load the file, it fails to read transaction
>  There is no error message.  No warning.   Many other transactions are lost
>  (the XML parser probably stops to read the rest of the file)
>
> Last time, it happend with the XML element <act:description>.
>
> I hope this information will help you fix this issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  Stephane
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