Ah, that makes more sense! Thanks!
Regards, Adrien > On Jul 23, 2019, at 12:55 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
