Euro support

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:00:38 -0700


Andrea Borgia writes:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:45:04 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Right now, euro support displays Euro-equivalent amounts in the
> >main window, but not the register. Register support for the euro
> >is not finished.
> 
> In the meantime, how do I tell gnucash that I used ITL to buy mutual
> funds whose shares are quoted in EUR ? Until July 2001, I'll have this
> problem more than once
> 
> I planned to use a currency account (in ITL) to handle the conversion,
> but I can't use such an account as a source for a transfer to the
> funds' account.

Set the 'currency' of the currency account to EUR and the 'security'
to ITL and you should be able to effect the transfer.

 
> Oh, btw, in the main window, you get:
> 
> total: ITL 69.000		total: EUR23.00
> 
> No space between amount and currency for EUR: is it on purpose?

Yes, but it should really be according to the locale. I'll fix that.

thanks,
dave