Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

[John Ralls]

On 20 May 2014, at 07:54, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote:
>> On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood <clint at screwtape.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the reply. I'd heard that before, and I didn't expect to
>>> be able to use the export, but the accompanying report with the tax
>>> form lines accumulating related accounts, rather than having to use
>>> a spreadsheet each year and remember which accounts added up to
>>> what.
>>> 
>>> There is code in the GnuCash release for a German localisation of
>>> the report, so I naively assumed I could create a GB localisation
>>> too. However, it is ignoring my localisation attempt.
>>> 
>>> I've created -en_GB versions of all the files localised as -de_DE
>>> and it just loads the us version.
>>> 
>>> I'd be surprised if a stable release of gnucash ships with code that
>>> isn't usable so I'm just trying to figure out why my localisation
>>> for en_GB is ignored.
> 
> Unfortunately the locale specific tax reports we added via a hack. And 
> the code that should load these reports explicitly checks if the locale 
> is de_DE. If not it will go for the US tax report. This filtering is 
> done in src/tax/us/gncmod-tax-us.c if I remember correctly.
> 
> You may be able to fix this by special casing en_GB as well, though I'd 
> rather see this mess cleaned up properly by storing locale dependent tax 
> related stuff in separate directories/files per locale/country and load 
> the relevant bits whenever the right locale is active.
> 
> That may be more than you intended to do here though :(

If there isn't already a bug report documenting that hack, there should be. That's a pretty bad wart.

Regards,
John Ralls