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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > But "colon" is the default! > > Colin > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 18:16 Adrien Monteleone, < > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 17:18, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> >> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
