Import a Gnucash 1.8.x data file

[Derek Atkins]

You'll need to go through your whole data file and find all
the instances of accented characters and make sure you choose
the proper encoding for all of them.  It's possible that you
have multiple encodings in the file, because gnucash prior to
2.0 wasn't very good about making sure that your encodings are
correct.

The other things to check:

  what, if anything, is printed on the xterm where you start GnuCash?
  what, if anything, is in /tmp/gnucash.trace?

-derek

Quoting Nicolas Scheffer <nscheffer at mac.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am a Gnucash user since 2000 and i am very happy about it.
> I have now  a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X (Intel CPU) and i try to move
> to Gnucash 2.x.
>
> But when i try to open my Gnucash 1.8.12 data file, i have a first
> dialog who ask me to choose the enconding caracter because i have
> accent on some words (I am french!) then i have just a dialog about
> an error, thats all!
>
> What to do to be able to use my old file on Gnucash 2.x ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Regards
>
> Nicolas Scheffer
>
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