From 1.8.x to 2.x: " There was an error parsing the file"

[Martin Wolters]

Hi Derek, 

thanks for your quick reply. I double-checked the list provided by gnucash again and all entries make sense with the ISO coding. Is there a way of getting a more verbose output during the parsing process? 

Thanks in advance

-M

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Subject: Re: From 1.8.x to 2.x: "There was an error parsing the file"
Sent: Wed, 23 May 2007
From: Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu>

> Quoting Martin Wolters <martin at martinwolters.com>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am planning to upgrade from my old debian machine (gnucash 1.8.x) 
> > to a new kubuntu (gnucash 2.x). When trying to open an old gnucash 
> > file I am first asked to select the correct character decoding (I 
> > chosse ISO), but then gnucash reports  "There was an error parsing 
> > the file". There is no print-out on the command line regarding this 
> > error. What can I do to fix/circumvent/debug the problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> 
> Are you sure that ISO is correct?  Did you actually spend the time
> looking through the document to see if ISO is correct?  You MIGHT
> have a combination of ISO and UTF8 which requires manual intervention
> to fix.  If you have a broken datafile, gnucash will fail to load it.
> 
> -derek
> 
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