Decimal point

[John Ralls]

On Jan 17, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Alain Cageda wrote:

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> I was using GnuCash in English so far. I have just changed to French. In the French environment the default decimal sign is a comma. As I prefer a point I set it to "point" in the config. pannel (where the language is set, you can configure that through a "personalize this profile" button).
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> Since then the "point" key of my digit pad has become inefficient and a bit later on (why only later I don't know) the decimal sign disappeared completely both from my past entries and the new I now make. There is just a space to separate the decimals from the rest. 
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> I know I could force the number of decimals and thus get, for instance, "20.00" by entering "2000". But if I get used to that, it will cause mistakes when I work in another environment. So I'd rather not do that.
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The program understands numbers as numbers, and represents them to you according to the locale settings -- which are configurable beyond just setting a language. See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings for details.

Regards,
John Ralls