[Kmymoney-devel] [kmymoney4] [Bug 357724] qif import defaults to UTF-8, need an option to choose other charsets

[allan via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357724

--- Comment #7 from allan <agander93 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Michel Briand from comment #6)
> Yes, this was covered by Thomas' comment.
> 
> Anyway a good way to help (drive) users to the feature not well known is to
> place a small label into the import dialog, just under the profile selection
> drop down list.
> With a quick sentence like this : "to customize import profile, like charset
> filter, please click on the profile edit button".
> 
> In the profile edit dialog, add a suggestion for the charset conversion
> filter : "to convert your file in UTF-8 (kmymoney charset), please use this
> import filter: 
> iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8
> "
> 
> In the documentation, copy & elaborate all that in the section §4.8 (french
> translation, document for kmymoney 4.6).

Character-set conversion is one particular use of the import filter, but as
there are others, I think it might be better instead of a hint about just one
of them, to refer the user to the handbook section.
Allan

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.