Expense accounts should not be single currency

[jgombos]

Suppose there exists an expense account "electronics".  GNUCash forces all
transactions in an expense account to be in the same currency.  So buying a
PDA in the US and then buying a cellphone in Finland isn't an option.  The
two purchases should be treated as the same type of expense, but gnucash
limitations seem to force two separate expense accounts in this situation:
electronics-usd, and electronics-euro.

How do you folks deal with this?  

It appears the available hacks are to create duplicate expense accounts for
each currency, or translate purchase prices outside of gnucash (which means
the amount printed on the sales receipt doesn't match what is entered in
gnucash).
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