Gnucash 2.6: problem opening file

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Jan 17 10:57:04 EST 2014


On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> 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.

Heh, it was reported by a Russian and even French triggered the bug.

But Cristian, do you have an Italian edition of Windows?

Regards,
John Ralls




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