Locales and currency.

[Greg Wilkins]

Yep - took me ages to work out how to do that properly, I was
only adding en_GB for a while and it was silently failing (but also
not reporting that it had compiled any domains).

The locale appears to work OK, as:

   + lots of gnome apps have stopped complaining about
     unknown LANG=C

   + Mozilla mail now has the dates in the *right* dd/mm/yyyy format :-)

I don't know of any other apps that use this locale to pick
the currency character - so I can't test if the locale has that
correct - but I kind of assume that it would have that correct?

thanks



James A. Treacy wrote:
 > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:42:35PM +0100, Greg Wilkins wrote:
 >
 >>I'm running gnucash 1.6.8 under Debian sid.
 >>
 >>If I run my system with no locale or with the POSIX locale, then
 >>it uses "GBP" as the currency symbol for pounds.
 >>
 >>However, if I run using the en_GB locale as set by
 >>
 >>  LANG=en_GB
 >>  LC_ALL=en_GB
 >>
 >>Then the currency symbol used is $
 >>
 >>Also when I change locales, the default currency for all my
 >>saved reports changes from GBP to USD?
 >
 >
 > Did you add
 > en_GB ISO-8859-1
 > to /etc/locale.gen
 > and run locale-gen?
 >


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