problems with gnucash 1.6.5

[Jon Lapham]

davadie philippe wrote:
> 		Hi,
> 
> 	I am using gnucash (1.6.5 version with a Linux Mandrake 8.1 = kernel
> 2.4.18) and I have noticed the following problems : 

Upgrade to v1.8.5.  Many, many, many (did I mention many?) problems have 
been fixed.

> - it's impossible to sea the letters with accents (in France we like
> them) and instead of seeing "Dépenses", I see "Dpenses". 

What does "echo $LANG" give you?

If it says something that ends in ".UTF-8" try restarting GnuCash like 
this from the command line: "LANG=fr gnucash".  Basically, just remove 
the ".UTF-8" from the LANG variable.  Does that fix the problem?

> - I am using the french version but in the window Preferences, some
> sentences remain in english : in Preferences/General we see 
> Emplacements décimaux auto (in french) and No account list setup on new
> file. 

Probably fixed in 1.8.5.  French is very well supported in the latest 
version of GnuCash.  In fact, French is transalated at the 96% level in 
v1.8.5 according to here:

http://www.gnucash.org/trans/

> - when I want to get details about the expenses thanks to pie charts,
> first of all I look at "Comptes de dépense" in the main window. If I
> click on Auto, Medical expenses or Entertainment, I get another pie
> chart with the details of my expense. If I click on Charity, I get no
> pie chart but the register of this account. 

I don't know.

> - when I look at the bar charts "Revenus dans le temps" (must be revenus
> along time or something like that) and "Dépenses dans le temps"
> (expenses...) I get items that I will call 1 2 ...8. When I click on the
> items to get more details, there is the following bug : if I click on
> item number 1, I get informations of item number 8, if I click on n°2, I
> get infos about n°7, click on item 3 give me infos of item 6 and so on.

I don't know.

> - a question to finish this mail : some expenses come regularly (e.g
> insurances, phone). Is it possible to make them appear every month
> automatically ? 

Try the "Scheduled Transactions" feature in GnuCash v1.8.5, it may do 
what you want.  Unfortunately there is no documentation for this yet... 
you will have to just play around.

>         Well, I hope my english is not too bad since I am french and
> that anybody can solve my problems.

Welcome aboard, your english is fine!  I think you will find GnuCash 
much nicer if you install the more recent version.

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