Previously, hledger could read CSV files containing non-ascii
characters only if they are UTF8-encoded. Now there is a new CSV
rule, encoding ENCODING, which allows reading CSV files with other
encodings.
This adds a dependency on the encoding library, which supports fewer
encodings than text-icu but does not require a third-party C library.
To avoid build issues on various platforms, we require version 0.10+.
This adds some use of the ImplicitParams language extension, required
by encoding's API, but only in a small code region.
This also changes the type of Reader's rReadFn; it now takes
a `Handle` rather than a `Text`, allowing more flexibility.
When print is generating beancount output, turn off the usual
inheritance of account tags by postings; it would generate excessive
metadata in the journal. Beancount can do or not do that kind of
inheritance itself.
- These special hidden tags, used internally, have been renamed:
- `_modified` -> `_modified-transaction`
- `_cost-matched` -> `_cost-posting`
- `_conversion-matched` -> `_conversion-posting`
- All special hidden tags now have a similarly-named visible tag,
and `--verbose-tags` now shows those more often, which is useful
when troubleshooting `--infer-equity`, `--infer-costs`,
or the matching of redundant costs and conversion postings.
- The `generated-posting:` tag added by `--infer-equity` is now valueless.
- The `modified-transaction:` tag added by `--auto` now appears on its own line.
--color now also works in a config file, like --pager, except for two
cases: it does not affect colouring of debug output, or the colouring
helpers used in the check recentassertions error message.
For brevity, and consistency with --conf.
--rules-file remains supported, as a hidden option.
hledger's main mode now supports the hidden legacy flags,
as the command modes do.
This enables a "relaxed" workflow where you delay balance assertions
checking until strict mode is turned on: always run hledger -I, and
add -s when you're ready.
When the error message repeated the invalid date at the end,
it was possible to misinterpret that as a suggested fix (reported in chat).
Instead, date errors (most of them) now rely on the highlighted data
excerpt above. This is also preferable since it shows the original
date as written, not a reconstruction with a possibly different format.
Should this be the policy for all error messages going forward ?
It would be easier.
Can we assume the data excerpt is always visible along with the error message ?
It isn't shown by flycheck-hledger in emacs, eg.
Based on feedback in chat, I added support for several more kinds of
Unicode space character for separating digit groups, both when reading
and when displaying numbers. These are the spaces currently supported,
which are just my best guess at the ones that might show up in CSV files
now and then:
space,
no-break space,
en space,
em space,
punctuation space,
thin space,
narrow no-break space,
medium mathematical space
When processing costs and equity postings in transactions during
journal finalisation, we now pass just the conversion account name(s)
rather than the entire map of account types. This slowdown was severe
for some users/data/machines.
Strict checks now run only once, at end of the high level read operation,
and not for each individual file; this fixes some spurious --strict failures,
like account declarations not affecting a sibling file as they should.
And .latest file writing now happens as the last step, after passing
strict checks. This is mainly for the import command, but it also
means that hledger print --new now does not update .latest files
if strict checks are failing.
The file reading API has been improved and documented in more detail.
This and the preceding commits were "work in progress" that got out of control.
There's more to do, but this one brings these precision-related improvements
(at least):
When "infinite decimals" arise, they are now generally shown with
8 decimal digits rather than 255.
print and prices no longer add trailing decimal zeros unnecessarily.
Some code has been refactored or given more debug output.
All tests have been updated to match the recent changes.
Changes to enable more control of "rounding" behaviour
(ie, choosing display precisions for amounts).
This reverts 1.31's change of asprecision, making it a non-Maybe
again, and adds a new asrounding field providing more control over how
a target display precision is applied to existing amounts (two options
for now, more later). Functionality is in an interim state (reports do
no rounding).
This simplifies the code for styling amounts with or without precision.
But it complicates the semantics (Nothing is useful only when setting style).
Not sure if it's the best way.
I found at least one user for whom this would be a breaking change
(they generate forecast txns, and have auto posting rules, but don't
want the latter applied to the former). I guess it's better to keep
things as they were for now: if you need auto postings on your
forecast txns you must use two flags, --forecast --auto.
Boolean queries are now prefixed with an 'expr:' prefix, making them
completely separable from old queries and making the addition of them a
little more migration proof.
The tests are updated accordingly, changes made to the tests previously
are removed and extra cautious documentation is also removed.
You can now write both @/@@ costs and corresponding equity conversion postings
in a transaction at any time, not just when using --infer-costs or --infer-equity.
hledger will recognise the redundancy and ignore it.
One thing has become more strict: hledger now requires conversion postings
to occur in adjacent pairs; an odd number of them is not allowed.
(Conversion postings are postings to accounts of type `V`/`Conversion`,
or named `equity:conversion`, `equity:trade`, `equity:trading`,
or subaccounts of these.)
And, --infer-costs now works in transactions with an implicit amount
(inferring costs from equity now happens after transaction balancing,
not before).
