Locales and currency.

James A. Treacy treacy@debian.org
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:37:24 -0400


On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:42:35PM +0100, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 
> I'm running gnucash 1.6.8 under Debian sid.
> 
> If I run my system with no locale or with the POSIX locale, then
> it uses "GBP" as the currency symbol for pounds.
> 
> However, if I run using the en_GB locale as set by
> 
>   LANG=en_GB
>   LC_ALL=en_GB
> 
> Then the currency symbol used is $
> 
> Also when I change locales, the default currency for all my
> saved reports changes from GBP to USD?

Did you add
en_GB ISO-8859-1
to /etc/locale.gen
and run locale-gen?

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org