[GNC] Bugzilla account request

[David Cousens]

Thanks John,

I haven't done any testing on it. Then that seems to imply that BoA is
using the backslash in some context in which the parser is unable to
interpret it. I think earlier in the thread Tom mentioned something
about it being used at the end of a description field rather than as an
escaping of the comma (or other character) being used as the field
terminator.
Tom can you post a line or two from the file where it is giving the
problem so we can see the context (modify any identifying data as
necessary preserving the context).

David

On Sun, 2026-06-07 at 12:07 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jun 6, 2026, at 20:50, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > which means that  Microsoft Excel. Apple's Numbers,
> > LibreOffice and Google Sheets and BoAwho implement the backslash as
> > an
> > escape character which is not part of the official RFC4180
> > definition
> > i.e. GnuCash is actually compliant with RFC4180.
> 
> David,
> 
> The implication of that is that GnuCash doesn’t treat `\` as an
> escape character. It does. See
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795666, 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799529,	and 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799774 (Tom Teixeira’s bug)
> all of which are variations on that theme. See
> also https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/f3c053fbee8c290d0fd111b1
> 25a4a52b03de862e/gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer-
> csv.cpp#L51:ff which implements the escaping.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 

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David Cousens