reporting currencies & integrity

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On Tuesday 23 January 2001 17:59, Dave wrote:
> Is this what you [Linas] are proposing:
>
> Account Security stays the same, with the same meaning. [1]
>
> Account Currency becomes Account Reported Currency and is
> the currency used in the main window. [2]
>
> Transaction Currency is added and replaces the old
> account currency/security for determining the common
> currency of the transaction. [3]
>
> split damount == amount in account security, same as before
> split value == amount in transaction currency [4]

To remind the reader of the results of last fall's debate about currencies 
I dug out Bill's summarizing mail. Maybe that can be added as 
gnucash/src/doc/currencies.txt .

Note that those proposals recommend [1], [3], and [4], but do not include 
[2].
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