[grisbi-bugs] [Grisbi-0.5.9-fixes 0000410]: Mac OS X: cannot open files if the path contains special characters (like é, perhaps &, ...)

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://grisbi.tuxfamily.org/mantis/view.php?id=410 
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Reported By:                mildred
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Grisbi-0.5.9-fixes
Issue ID:                   410
Category:                   Main
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             10-29-2008 13:19 UTC
Last Modified:              01-31-2010 06:34 UTC
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Summary:                    Mac OS X: cannot open files if the path contains
special characters (like é, perhaps &, ...)
Description: 
With Grisbi.app-0.5.9-X11-PPC-OSX-10.4.dmg on a Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, I cannot
open files if any of the directories where the file is in have a name
containing special characters like é and &.

The error message says:

/Users/<username>/Documents/.../Adm A & B/Comptabilité/Comptabilité
2008/Compta 2008.gsb doesn't seem to be a regular file,
please check and try again.

On the console, I get:

(grisbi:3690): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text due to error parsing
markup: Error on line 1: Character ' ' is not valid at the start of an
entity name; the & character begins an entity; if the ampersand isn't
supposed to be an entity, escape it as &amp;

If I use pathnames like:
(1) /Users/<username>/Desktop/test with spaces
(2) /Users/<username>/Desktop/test with &
(3) /Users/<username>/Desktop/test with & and more
(4) /Users/<username>/Desktop/test with & and é
(5) /Users/<username>/Desktop/test with é

Only the pathnames (4) and (5) cause the error, only the pathname (4)
trigger the above error message on the console.

This does not happens on GNU/Linux
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 mildred - 10-30-08 10:15  
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There is esactly the same problem when exporting an HTML report. And I
guess the same for every action that involves opening or saving files. 

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 pbiava - 01-31-10 06:34  
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This is a 0.5.9 bug, therefore, we won't fix it.
We are fully dedicating our efforts to the 0.6 version. The latest version
is the Release Candidate 2 available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/grisbi/files/ [^]

Please consider migrating to the 0.6 version, and be sure to keep a copy
of your 0.5.9 accounts file as the 0.6 version is not in its final state. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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10-29-08 13:19  mildred        New Issue                                    
10-29-08 13:19  mildred        OS                        => MacOSX          
10-29-08 13:19  mildred        Unstable Impact           => Yes             
10-29-08 13:19  mildred        Version OS                => 10.5 PPC        
10-30-08 10:15  mildred        Note Added: 0000686                          
06-09-09 20:11  MyKeul         Project                  Grisbi =>
Grisbi-0.5.9-fixes
01-31-10 06:34  pbiava         Status                   new => closed       
01-31-10 06:34  pbiava         Note Added: 0001882                          
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