Negative number problems

[Matthew Vanecek]

Dave Peticolas wrote:
> 
> Matthew Vanecek writes:
> > Hi,
> > 1.4.8 doesn't seem to like negative numbers. Two problems I'm having:
> >
> > 1) I created a new credit card account.  The balance of course starts at
> > zero and decreases from there.  The first transaction I entered was a
> > debit of $21.  The reported balance appeared as 0.06.  It should have
> > showed (21.00).  Further transactions display similar oddities.  The
> > balance in the main window seems to be correct.  Just the Register is
> > weird.
> >
> > 2) I went to reconcile one of my checking accounts.  On paper it had a
> > -1.84 ending balance.  So I dutifully enter -1.84 as the ending balance,
> > and tab on, and the figure is converted to (1.84).  All seems well.
> > When I click OK, and get to the reconcile window, the ending balance is
> > incorrectly reported as 0.08.  This caused my final balance to be off.
> > No matter what I did, I could not get a negative ending balance to
> > work.  This is very disturbing, especially since I need to reconcile my
> > credit card accounts, and all of those naturally have a negative
> > balance.  When I try to enter the negative ending balance, and tab out
> > of the field, the amount is summarily converted to 0.
> >
> > What can I do to fix this?  I didn't have this problem in previous
> > versions.  Should I downgrade to a previous version (the last one I used
> > was Helix's release of it)?
> >
> > I'm currently using RH 7.0, and the GNUCash 1.4.8 RPM from gnucash.org.
> 
> You're running in the C locale, right? There is a bug with amount printing
> and the C locale (exposed by RH 7.0 which has different defaults for the
> C locale than previous RH versions). Short term fix: switch to another
> locale, i.e., LANG=en_US gnucash, as appropriate.
> 
> The next stable version will fix this problem.
> 
> dave

Thanks,  that seems to have worked.  What is the C locale?  I didn't
have my LANG variable set at all...
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