Why transcoding (was: Encoding problems - MySql backend)

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Jan 24 04:20:12 EST 2012


Op maandag 23 januari 2012 08:47:11 schreef Andrew Sullivan:
> (It also suprises me that Gnucash is doing UTF-8 internally always on
> Windows, since Windows doesn't use UTF-8 normally; so there'd be
> cleanup needed at input.)
> 
The gtk/gnome libraries GnuCash is built upon do everything in UTF-8 
internally, so GnuCash doesn't have much choice.

And you are right about the need for input cleanup: we do have some conversion 
issues at input time that are still not fixed yet.

Geert


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