A question of Gcash connect to MYSQL

[John Ralls]

On Apr 30, 2013, at 2:25 AM, Polo InitX <initxpolo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi 
>    After that I have do a test.
> Choose English US in windows control panel then run Gnucash input the host username password for  MYSQL connection.
> when connection was success create the count then quit the Gnucash. then go to the control panel change the local from 
> English US back to Chinese RPC  then run Gnucash again there is a dialogue window to ask username and password for MYSQL connection at this time any input will be accept and display.
> maybe this test will give a little help to fix this issue.

Interesting. When the dialog comes up, are there already values in it?

> BTW: Is anyone could tell me if I rename the Assets into Chinese or Japanese or other language, is this rename will sync to MYSQL.
> I'm afraid of this will make a character problem.

The connection between Gnucash and MySQL is supposed to be encoded in UTF-8, so it *should* work as long as you've localized the MySQL for Chinese as well. Its default is Swedish, which has caused trouble for unwary users.

Regards,
John Ralls

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> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Apr 26, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Polo InitX <initxpolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You were right.  I go to control panel then change the format from Chinese RPC to English US .
> > after change I can input the host user password etc. etc.
> >
> > anyway who should to fix this issue gnome or gnucash?
> 
> Well, Gtk, not Gnome, but that's a good question. Since we don't really understand what's going on, it's hard to say what the problem might be or in which codebase. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that it would happen only in that one dialog box.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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