Yes that is a good idea with dialog box.
Because when I change in date.h and QIFIO.c some thing to use DD/MM/YYYY and not
MM/DD/YYYY, I can import qif files from French Ms-Money 3.0 and import correctly.
Yannick
Peter Pointner a �crit :
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> > > Christopher Browne writes:
> > > <snip>
> > > > > QIF import is unaffected by date formats, AFAIK, as QIF encodes dates
> > > > > into a common format.
> > > >
> > > > This isn't *quite* true; it appears that different versions of Quicken
> > > > encode dates differently, with differences including different
> > > > delimiters (e.g. - "/" versus "-" versus ".").
> > > >
> > > You're kidding, right? Nobody would be silly enough to encode dates
> > > in a version-specific way in a file format specifically designed to
> > > exchange data?
> >
> > Sadly, it's true. QIF is a really strange interchange format, I think.
> > You can't export multiple accounts in one file, so if you want to
> > load two accounts from QIF, you have to load in two QIFs, merge
> > them, and then try to make *guesses* as to which transactions
> > in one match up with the other.
>
> If you make an assumption about QIF, somebody else will proof you wrong:
> My german version of Quicken 8 aka Quicken 2000 _can_ export all acounts
> into one QIF. But of course it's broken elsewhere, e. g. it uses '.' as
> decimal separator in amounts of money, but ',' in prices and amounts of
> shares.
>
> I'm not sure if it's really possible to fix all that automagically. Maybe
> we need a set of "filters" for the different QIFs.
>
> Peter
>
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