Hi, I'm wondering if there's much of a British contingent here on ledger. Anyone owning up?
I have been playing with the latest build of ledger. I have been encountering UTF-8 issues :( I think I'm right in saying that £ (poundsign) is ascii code Dec 163 - a single byte - but in UTF-8 encoding it requires 2 bytes. The errors I've sometimes been getting is: Error: Invalid UTF-8 Looking at the hex dump, ledger works when the £ is represented by 2 bytes, but fails when it represent by 1 byte. This is fairly tedious, because different editors seem to have different ideas about how to represent it. Not only is it creating display issues, but it also raises questions about what ledger thinks the unit really is, with implications on how things like commodity prices are treated. It helps to have the following line in one's ledger file: ; -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ... assuming you then edit it with emacs. Perhaps the safest thing to do would be to write things in a unitless way,though, or maybe fake the units as $ . Much joy. Regards, Mark.
