2013-10-20 GnuCash IRC logs
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08:02:44 <PaulFertser> Hi there :) Inability to load .gnucash file if it has some broken utf-8 inside: a known bug or should be reported?
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10:04:40 <warlord> PaulFertser: known issue. How did it get broken utf-8?
10:05:47 <warlord> (technically that isnt the bug -- the bug is allowing non-utf8 input somewhere)
10:06:57 <PaulFertser> warlord: I had a long utf-8 string in bank id in OFX file, but libofx takes only first N bytes from it.
10:07:57 <warlord> hmm... I dont know why it would cut it off. how long is it?
10:08:15 <PaulFertser> Another case was when I imported a CSV file with broken unicode, not sure how it happened to have it.
10:08:38 <PaulFertser> I'll check. But it's libofx doing cutting, no idea why, specs doesn't seem to require it.
10:08:42 <warlord> Can you report those two bugs, please?
10:09:10 <warlord> if it is libofx maybe benoitg knows
10:09:13 <PaulFertser> warlord: sure
10:10:21 <warlord> thanks
10:12:25 <PaulFertser> It's very annoying to not being able to open a file after you just imported a bank statement with ~20 transactions, heh.
10:12:44 <benoitg> PaulFertser: Libofx does have length limit, libofx does static memory allocation (a remnant of another time) so could cut strings, but i doubt that's your problem.
10:13:44 <warlord> gotta run.
10:13:46 <benoitg> PaulFertser: Most likely you have an encoding problem. Some were fixed pretty recently.
10:14:39 <benoitg> PaulFertser: See if you can reproduce the problem with ofxdump. If you can, try upgrading your libofx.
10:14:45 <benoitg> Gotta run also.
10:15:13 <PaulFertser> benoitg: heh
10:15:25 <PaulFertser> benoitg: if it does cut the string, how can it not cut it? :)
10:15:44 <PaulFertser> I've checked the git log for libofx.
10:16:22 <PaulFertser> I know releases prior to 0.9.6 do not work with unicode xml files and 0.9.6 has a very serious line ending detection bug that makes it unusable too.
10:18:34 <benoitg> Oh, I just checked the spec, bankid is limited to 9 character, branchid 22.
10:18:45 <benoitg> PaulFertser: You are pretty much out of luck.
10:19:10 <PaulFertser> benoitg: probably libofx shouldn't output broken utf-8 regardless.
10:19:28 <PaulFertser> And gnucash shouldn't break receiving it too :)
10:20:31 <benoitg> I was young back then, I had this silly idea that software should be coded against spec...
10:20:49 <PaulFertser> In fact that limit seems arbitrary and unnecessary
10:21:09 <PaulFertser> benoitg: btw, thank you for the library, it's really useful!
10:22:23 <PaulFertser> I do not think anything should break if the limits for BANKID and ACCTID are removed altogether.
10:23:03 <benoitg> The strings are allocated statically, having dynamic memory allocation there would completely break the api.
10:23:04 <PaulFertser> The gnucash for android app is emitting ofx files with very long acctid and one can't see the account name (as it comes about last in that long string).
10:23:44 <benoitg> The gnucash for android app should not emit invalid OFX ;)
10:23:45 <PaulFertser> Making a static buffer a bit larger won't be noticed by anybody :)
10:23:59 <PaulFertser> Yes, it shouldn't. In fact it emits very invalid ofx :/
10:24:06 <benoitg> PaulFertser: I't already been quadrupled I think...
10:24:55 <PaulFertser> It's not an embedded system and statics are allocated only once...
10:27:22 <PaulFertser> benoitg: i've written a parser for my bank's statements (in brain-dead "txt" format) and it outputs OFX. I'd prefer to have the full "name" of my card (as emitted by the bank) in ACCTID: "VISA ELECTRON XXXX XXXX XXX2 6616 ОСНОВНАЯ" . Why shouldn't I do that?
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16:42:21 <john> warlord: Derek, are you there?
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18:43:12 <brucemint15> Good morning ladies and gents (well it's morning in Australia). I have a question about exports. Apparently the only format I can use is XML. Is there any way I can export to CSV, or something else to work with?
19:35:43 <warlord> john: I am here now.
19:38:47 <warlord> brucemint15: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Importing.2FExporting_Data
19:39:07 <brucemint15> Thanks, I'll have a look
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