alphabetical sorting of accounts on windows

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

>> On Mar 3, 2017, at 5:28 AM, Vojtech Fried <Vojtech.Fried at seznam.cz> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I live in Czechia, but my Windows 7 are english. I noticed that the sort 
>> order of account names was wrong. I use some czech accented characters in 
>> the account names. I tried to tweak the environment file, but with no 
>> success. I was able to change the Gnucash interface language, but I could 
>> not fix the sort order. In the end I figured out a solution (workaround?): 
>> you need to change the "Language for non-Unicode programs" setting in 
>> Windows (on Windows 7: Control Panels ... Region and Language .. 
>> Administrative .. Change system locale). When I changed it from default 
>> English/US to Czech/Czech Republic, the sort started to be ok.
>> I am not sure if it is a bug or it is intended this way, but I guess it 
>> should be somewhere in the docs.
>
> Thanks for the report. I'm pretty sure the problem is that we don't
> call setlocale() with the Microsoft locale names on Windows.

Should we get a bug filed on this?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek
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