Gnucash 2.2.8 - won't open accounts file

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:21:10 +0000, Steve Bamber <s.bamber at virgin.net>
wrote:
> curiously when i changed the ticker symbol from NIS to anything else the 
> file would load without a problem
> 
> didn't make much sense to me until i trawled through the gnc-commodity.c 
> code and discovered the following change new in 2.2.8
> 
>    {"NIS", "ILS"}, /* New Israeli Shekel: The informal abbreviation may 
> be "NIS", but
>                       its iso-4217 is clearly ILS and only this! 
> incorrectly changed
>                       due to bug#152755 (Nov 2004) and changed back 
> again by bug#492417
>                       (Oct 2008). */
> 
> looks like my stock symbol was being incorrectly identified as a new 
> israeli schekel and having its code changed to ILS when it was loaded - 
> even though its prices and other references still referred to NIS


>From what I know of the data-format that patch seems to be wrong
as currencies and stocks operate on different comodity-namespaces.
So someone forgot to check the namespace.

Marcus