[GNC] Bugzilla account request

[Fred Bone]

On 08 June 2026 at 6:32, Tom Teixeira said:

> And I repeat that the file produced by BoA is read as is by Microsoft
> Excel and LibreOffice and many other popular spreadsheet programs, without
> preprocessing.

The question is, read how?

When I save the 3 sample lines verbatim into a file with filetype ".csv", 
and open it in LibreOffice, the result is that the backslashes are read 
verbatim. So it is NOT treating them as escape characters.

An old copy of Lotus 1-2-3 does the same.

Google Sheets does the same if I "upload" the same file.

I don't have "many other popular spreadsheet programs" to test with.

Gnucash appears to treat backslashes unconditionally as escape 
characters, which it seems to me is the source of the problem. On the 
other hand, reportedly other data sources do use backslashes as escapes 
(which is presumably why Gnucash so treats them).