[GNC] Use of "dash" as a Separator Character

[Adrien Monteleone]

Ah, that makes more sense! Thanks!


Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 23, 2019, at 12:55 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> It is indeed. What the tooltip is trying to say is that you can enter any single character except a letter or a number or you can enter one of the listed strings and GnuCash will convert the string to the corresponding character. "dash" really means "hyphen" (U+002d), but regardless that conflicts with the hard-coded account names including imbalance, orphaned gains, and trading accounts.
> 
> We can't change the hard-coded account names without breaking existing books, which is too bad. Using one of the dash characters (U+2013 or U+2014) would have been a better design choice as it requires special effort to enter one from most keyboards. I'm afraid the only solution is to make U+002d an illegal separator character and to remove "dash" from the interpreted strings.
> 
> The hiding message box is mostly a mac problem, the fix is to make it "transient for" the preferences window.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 10:26 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> But "colon" is the default!
>> 
>> Colin
>> 
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 18:16 Adrien Monteleone, <
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I’m using 3.6 on MacOS.
>>> 
>>> It says, emphasis mine:
>>> 
>>> A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters and numbers, or any
>>> of the following strings: “colon” “slash”, “backslash”, “dash” and “period”.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> There are three missing commas in that list, but the intent is still
>>> clear. The ‘or’ is extending the list of exceptions beyond just “letters
>>> and numbers”.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It should probably read for clarity and grammar:
>>> 
>>> A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters, numbers, “colon”,
>>> “slash”, “backslash”, “dash”, and “period”.
>>> 
>>> Thus, you cannot use:
>>> 
>>> letters
>>> numbers
>>> colon
>>> slash
>>> backslash
>>> dash
>>> period
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 17:18, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> The tooltip on my Mac version of GC 3.5 specifically includes “dash” as
>>> one of the legal options.
>>>> 
>>>> Same with 3.6 on Ubuntu.  The tooltip says "dash" is allowed.  I guess
>>>> that is a bug.
>>>> 
>>>> Colin
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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