Commodities initialization list

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 11, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Monday 10 August 2015 16:29:25 John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Ngewi Fet <ngewif at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> Could someone point out to me where the commodities list is found in
>>> the repository?
>>> 
>>> I tried searching the repo and can find code which seems to indicate
>>> that there is a file which is loaded into the database on
>>> application start. But I cannot find the list itself.
>>> 
>>> I would like to initialize the Android app with the same list of
>>> commodities as the desktop version.
>>> Thanks.
>> 
>> There’s a currency list in src/engine/commodity-table.scm which holds
>> the ISO currencies. All other commodities are user-defined.
>> 
> I wasn't aware of that file. Upon inspection it contains a list of 
> commodity sources (CURRENCY, NASDAQ,...).
> 
> As Derek replied the iso currencies themselves are in
> src/engine/iso-4217-currencies.xml
> 
> At build time this xml file is translated into a c source file via xslt, 
> using
> src/engine/iso-currencies-to-c.xsl

Sorry, I stand corrected. I’d forgotten that we’d changed the currency table from scheme to xml in 2.6 and went looking for a scheme file. Guess I should have looked *in* the scheme file before saying anything!

Regards,
John Ralls