alphabetical sorting of accounts on windows

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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?

We already do, though its title is perhaps too narrow: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725296.

Regards,
John Ralls