Problems getting quotes for funds

[David Reiser]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:39 PM, David Reiser wrote:

> Does two ugly hacks equal a fix?
>
> When I sent out the first hack, I assumed that success of gnc-fq- 
> dump = success for Get Quotes inside gnucash. Oops. It turns out  
> that gnucash wasn't totally silent, just mumbling in the background  
> about no currency being assigned. When I accommodated   
> yahoo_europe's new timespec field, I didn't bother matching the  
> number of elements in  @FIELDS and @FIELD_ENCODING lists. gnc-fq- 
> dump didn't have a problem with that, but gnucash does. My second  
> hack is just to add a second request for currency at the end of the  
> encoding list. I have tested this inside gnucash, and it does work  
> for European funds identified by isin.
>
> REMEMBER: this hack definitely breaks Yahoo US (and most likely  
> Yahoo Asia and Australia too). But if you can get all the rest of  
> your quotes from either Yahoo_Europe or non-Yahoo sources, then it  
> can retrieve quotes for isin identified funds. Instead of MFEXPG.L,  
> you'll have to enter GB0003243465GBP as the 'ticker'.
>
> This 'fix' is still ugly almost beyond belief, but it might be  
> useful to some. There is a different patch in the Finance-Quote bug  
> tracker, but it breaks non-European Yahoos as well.
>
> Dave
> <yahoofix.diff>

Rats. That isn't enough either. At this point, it looks like the  
finance-quote bug tracker patch
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=4232&atid=104232&file_id=269562&aid=1910138
is a better bet than my attempts.

The latest problem being that quotes in pence aren't trapped and  
converted to pounds.

Dave
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David Reiser
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