Account Names

[Derek Atkins]

"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:

> The problem with your solution is that "B/F Bal" is going to be clearly
> understood by anyone reading the accounts, whereas "B-F Bal" could mean
> pretty much anything.  When programming this sort of stuff, sanity
> checking the input is absolutely fundamental, and this includes ensuring
> that the input contains only the permitted character set.  If the
> character *is* accepted then it should just work, like any other
> character.  Either way, the reported behaviour is a bug.

Which input do you sanitize?

The problem here is that you can create an account with a special
character that's perfectly legal and then later change your separator
character to that same character you used earlier.

Feel free to send in a patch that does a full recursive account name
character check prior to allowing the user to change the directory
separator...

> Colin

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-derek

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