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4.2.3

This is AqBanking, a modular library for Online Banking and related tasks.

This library was designed by Martin Preuss<martin@aquamaniac.de> to provide a generic way for applications to use Online Banking (e.g. HBCI), and to import/export financial data (such as OFX, SWIFT, DTAUS). It is written in C (see API for Applications).

If you are writing an application and want to use AqBanking's features, there are two possibilities:

A general Note: All strings exchanged from and to AqBanking are expected in UTF-8 encoding unless stated otherwise. Please do not pass Latin-1 strings (i.e. with latin1-Umlauts) into AqBanking or expect the returned strings (which might be translated into German in UTF-8) in that way. For converting UTF-8 into or from other encodings, see the system function iconv(3) in iconv.h.

Features

AqBanking is very modular. It simply provides the means to manage online accounts and to import/export financial data. AqBanking itself does not implement the actual online banking protocols -- this is done in extra plugins which serve as backends/providers. This library is organized in multiple layers:

For the backends/providers, AqBanking provides callbacks for some simple user interaction functions, independently of the actual graphical or text frontend. (see Backend Objects) This has the additional advantage that any new backend/provider will then immediately be supported by all applications.


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