Data portability?

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Jun 23, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
>> 
>>> I seem to remember encountering an issue like this with scheduled 
>>> transactions. For example, my data file contains this snippet in the scheduled 
>>> transaction templates:
>>>            <slot>
>>>              <slot:key>credit-formula</slot:key>
>>>              <slot:value type="string">1.200,00</slot:value>
>>>            </slot>
>>> 
>>> This still seems to be very locale dependent. So perhaps the issue is only in 
>>> scheduled transactions.
>> 
>> Yes, the issue with only with SXes.
>
> Shouldn't SXes be using gnc_numerics like everything else that handles money? They can have computations in them, can't they?

The problem is in the debit/credit formulas.  There is no data structure
for that, it's just stored as a string.  That string can include numbers.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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