Gnucash 2.6: problem opening file

[John Ralls]

On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Cristian,

There’s already https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721687

Regards,
John Ralls