Gnucash 2.6: problem opening file

[Cristian Marchi]

Il 08/01/2014 16:43, Cristian Marchi ha scritto:
>
> Il 06/01/2014 18.35, Derek Atkins ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jacques Beckand <j.beckand at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Whenever a non ascii character (for example a french accented
>>> character) is contained in the full path name of a .gnucash file,
>>> Gnucash 2.6 cannot open it and displays the message: "An error occured
>>> while reading file : xxxxx"
>>>
>>> Just moving the file into a directory without any non ascii file fixes
>>> the problem. This looks like a regression because did not happen with
>>> version 2.4.13.
>>>
>>> Gnucash 2.6 on WIndows 7
>> I don't think this is limited (or new) to 2.6; I'm pretty sure this has
>> *always* been the case.
>>
>
> I've an Italian user reporting the same exact problem. GnuCash 2.4.13 
> opens files with accented characters in the name, while 2.4.14 and 
> 2.6.0 can't.
>
> I will try to reproduce the problem in my XP installation and report 
> back to see if it is limited to win7.
>
> Regards
> Cristian
>
>
After further testing I can confirm that files with non ascii characters 
can't be opened by GnuCash 2.6 while 2.4.13 can. This seems to be only a 
windows OS problem (tested under winXP and Ubuntu 13.10). I think a bug 
should be opened; if you are not able to, I will do.

Regards
Cristian