Gnucash 2.2.8 - won't open accounts file

[Steve Bamber]

i've raised a bug against 2.2.8 - Bug# 567174

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567174

cheers
steve

marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com wrote:
> 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
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