Gnucash 2.6: problem opening file

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Fri Jan 17 07:11:27 EST 2014


On Friday 17 January 2014 12:51:00 Cristian Marchi wrote:
> Il 17/01/2014 1.17, John Ralls ha scritto:
> > Thanks to the trace file provided in Bug 721687, I was able to
> > quickly track this down to a call to
> > g_win32_locale_filename_from_utf8. Removing that call fixed the
> > problem for me on a US edition of Win7 Home Pro, but I’m concerned
> > about folks with non-English Windows editions, particularly XP. I’d
> > appreciate it if everyone with such installations can test tomorrow
> > morning’s (in the Eastern US time zone) nightly build. It will be
> > at http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/trunk/ and will have a
> > filename like gnucash-2.6.0-2014-01-17-git-xxxxxxx+-setup.exe with
> > some hex gibberish instead of the row of ‘x’s.
> > 
> > For those interested, the change is r23700.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> > 
> > 
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> I've just tested the nightly build under XP with Italian locale and it
> works. Thanks for your work John!
> 
> Regards
> Cristian

Cristian, thanks for your test and feedback.

I'm not sure though that our European languages are "foreign" enough to trigger the bug.

To be sure we'd need a tester for languages such as Russian, Chinese, or similar. Those 
that have a different code page on Windows than the Western code page.

Geert


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