Again, EUR symbol in reports

[Marcel Felgentraeger]

Am Mon, 2002-06-10 um 22.41 schrieb Christian Stimming:
> Now that I updated to Suse 8.0 I can precisely reproduce that problem. Ca=
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> you, Neil and Marcel, please confirm whether I correctly describe what's=20
> going on? The tip with "@euro" removing from LANG just changes the locale=
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> settings so that currency amounts are always printed with "EUR" instead o=
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> with the euro symbol. While this is ok as a workaround, we should still t=
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> to get the "real thing" (tm). So here's the problem description:

Hi. I had given up on this subject after the last mail, since I got no
more reply, but I will be more than happy to support you :-)

> 1. The EUR symbol (looks like: =A4) is *correctly* shown in the register =
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> the "Current: xx Future: xx Reconciled: xx"  amounts are shown, and due t=
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> the locale settings of "de_DE@euro" the amounts are correctly shown with=20
> number and trailing euro symbol.

Right.

> 2. The EUR symbol is *not* shown in any gtkhtml widget. Instead it shows =
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> weird circle-something-symbol. In the source code we get a ¤ -- shou=
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> this result in a euro symbol? If yes, does anybody know how to get gtkhtm=
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> display the EUR symbol? Also, during startup I get a bunch of warnings li=
ke:
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> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> Gdk-WARNING **:     ISO8859-15
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> (ISO8859-15 is just the usual western character set ISO8859-1 plus the EU=
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> symbol.)

Cant say anything about gtkwidgets, since I don't know enough about this
things to exactly know what they are, but I get the same error messages
when starting gnucash in a terminal. Missed it before, since I started
it through an desktopicon.
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> 3. In the main window, the "net asset" widget does *not* show the EUR sym=
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> but the same stuff as number 2, but I don't use that display anyway so I=20
> don't care here.

Right. I don't use the them either, but I found that strange from the
beginning, since in the account the main account window the EUR symbol
is displayed correctly.
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> 4. In any Guppi chart, I get just nothing instead of the EUR symbol. But =
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> Guppi improvements will have to wait until we port gnucash to gnome2... s=
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> that problem is likely to exist well into next year.=20

I don't really know if there is a place for the EUR symbol to appear in
any of the guppi charts I have created to check this, but I could find
it nowhere. The axis is just labeled with "EUR". Don't know if there
should be a EUR symbol appearing anywhere.
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Mayba a note at the end: I had those problems allready when running
under SuSE 7.3 as far as I can remember. So I guess this is nothing
distro specific.=20

CU
Marcel