Opening balance reconciling investment account incorrect.

[hnaparst]

Well, maybe, but who knows.  I am just histoguessing that the encoding that
Quicken is producing is WINDOWS-1252.   After running iconv -f=WINDOWS-1252
-t=UTF-8 -o NordnetUTF.QIF Nordnet.QIF  the same import error occurred:

* 19:31:19  WARN <gnc.scm> In unknown file:
   ?: 12* [private-convert]
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm:
 224: 13* (let* (# # # # ...) (letrec # # # ...))
In unknown file:
   ?: 14  (letrec (#) (if progress-dialog #) (hash-fold # #t qif-acct-map)
...)
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm:
 370: 15* [for-each #<procedure #f (qif-file)> (#)]
In unknown file:
   ?: 16* [#<procedure #f #> #]
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm:
 376: 17* [for-each #<procedure #f (xtn)> (# # # # ...)]
In unknown file:
   ?: 18* [#<procedure #f #> #]
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm:
 381: 19* (if (not (qif-xtn:mark xtn)) (let* (#) (xaccTransBeginEdit
gnc-xtn) ...))
 383: 20  (let* ((gnc-xtn #)) (xaccTransBeginEdit gnc-xtn) ...)
 392: 21* [qif-import:qif-xtn-to-gnc-xtn # # # ...]
 431: 22  (let (# # # # ...) (cond # # #) (if qif-payee #) ...)
 507: 23* (if (not qif-security) (begin # # # ...) (let* # # # ...))
 601: 24  (let* (# # # # ...) (if # #) (if xtn-amt # #) ...)
 660: 25* (if (and qif-near-acct qif-far-acct) (begin # # # ...))
 661: 26  (begin (set! near-acct-info #) (set! near-acct-name #) ...)
 683: 27* (set! far-acct-name (qif-map-entry:gnc-name far-acct-info))
 683: 28* [qif-map-entry:gnc-name #f]
In unknown file:
   ?: 29  (if (eq? # #) (struct-ref obj 3) (%record-type-error # obj))
   ?: 30* [eq? ...
   ?: 31* [struct-vtable #f]
<unnamed port>: In procedure struct-vtable in expression (struct-vtable
obj):
<unnamed port>: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting struct): #f



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Derek Atkins [via GnuCash] <
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> hnaparst <[hidden email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4665436&i=0>>
> writes:
>
> > Haha, no matter.
> >
> > Of greater concern is that importing most of my QIF-file securities
> > accounts fail.  There are 141 open import-related bugs, including some
> that
> > are quite similar to what I am experiencing.
> >
> > Obviously, if I can't import my transactions, either from Quicken or
> from
> > my broker, then I can't use Gnucash at all.
>
> The issue you are experiencing is an encoding issue.  QIF does not
> specify the actual encoding.  GnuCash uses UTF-8, but it is probably
> failing to properly transcode from e.g. ISO encoding.
>
> As an interim you can manually use 'iconv' to translate from ISO to UTF8
> before you import the QIF.
>
> > Thanks for listening!
> >
> > Harold
>
> -derek
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