[Kmymoney-devel] [Bug 291685] New: OFX files with UTF-8 data are not imported correctly

[Cristian Oneț]

On Tuesday 17 January 2012 21:53:29 Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on Tuesday 17 January 2012 19:49:55 Cristian Oneț wrote:
> > On Monday 16 January 2012 15:48:34 Jack wrote:
> > > On 2012.01.16 14:12, Cristian Onet wrote:
> > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291685
> > > > 
> > > > OFX files with UTF-8 data are not imported correctly.
> > > 
> > > Can I assume that the fix will not affect OFX files which are NOT in
> > > UTF-8?  (Sorry, I'm just in a paranoid mood today.)
> > 
> > No, they will not be affected since Latin1 is a subset of UTF-8.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> thb at thb-nb:~> cat test
> äöü
> thb at thb-nb:~> file test
> test: UTF-8 Unicode text
> thb at thb-nb:~> hexdump -C test
> 00000000  c3 a4 c3 b6 c3 bc 0a                              |.......|
> 00000007
> thb at thb-nb:~> recode utf8..latin1 test
> thb at thb-nb:~> file test
> test: ISO-8859 text
> thb at thb-nb:~> hexdump -C test
> 00000000  e4 f6 fc 0a                                       |....|
> 00000004
> 
> US-ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 though, so you folks in the US should not be
> affected if your bank supplies files in US-ASCII.

OK, my explanation was lame :) I have to admit it. The real explanation is 
that the buffer returned by libofx containing a string is UTF-8 encoded and it 
was working fine until now because we only had users importing data conatining 
US-ASCII characters.

-- 
Regards,

Cristian Oneț
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