> On Aug 4, 2019, at 12:23 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 4 Aug 2019, at 16:32, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> >> wrote: >> >> I’ve had no issue exporting and importing an account tree myself. >> >> I see you’re using a comma as part of an account name. While changing the >> separator and using quotes should work, I try to avoid commas in CSV data as >> a rule. >> >> Try using something else like `-` (hyphen), `–` (en dash), `—` (em dash), >> `~` (tilde), or `_` (underscore) and see if that works without quotes and >> with the standard comma separator or CamelCase the names if that isn’t an >> eye sore for you. > > That worked! > > I restricted myself to changing one name, replacing the comma with an > underscore, and edited the exported file with MacVim so as so import only > that account name and all went well! > > I plan now to investigate the mass-production of multiple identical > transactions such as annual subscriptions by editing the CSV file in MacVim. > This way I can keep the monitoring of such payments within GC, with the > simple recording of the receipt of a cheque updating that individual’s > account.
I would suspect a macro of vim script could handle that easily as could macros in a spreadsheet. > > Many thanks, > > Michael > > PS My first attempt at importing the whole membership list failed, even > though I’d replaced the “, “ with “_” in the account names. I had a suspicion > this might relate to an e-acute (“é”) in a member’s name, and replacing this > with a plain “e” worked the trick. > >> >> Note, I’d suspect a bug, but maybe there is a good reason why it failed. >> Hopefully someone more familiar with the importer’s quirks will chime in. > > The failure to handle UTF-8 characters looks like a bug to me. Yep. I’d file that one. If it isn’t designed to handle them on purpose, then at least as an RFE. Regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
