LANG Issue

[Graeme Nichols]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:18, Robert Uhl wrote:
> I'm encountering some issues with setting LANG.  You see, although I'm
> an American I do _not_ use American spellings, and so I've set my
> display manager to log me in with LANG set to en_GB.UTF-8.
> Unfortunately, GnuCash thinks that this means that I'm in the UK and
> thus sets the default currency to pounds.
> 
> I figured out how to defeat this (Preferences:International, IIRC), but
> it is still displaying my accounts (all of which are in dollars) as in
> 'USD' rather than in '$'.  What is the proper way to resolve this?  I
> definitely want my various apps to default to British spelling
> (particularly word processors and chat programmes), and I'd like GnuCash
> to do the same if possible, but I also want my dollars to display as
> dollars.

I'm not sure if this will help but you could try Australian Dollars. We
also spell correctly :-) I would also expect that any currency
conversions would be screwed up if you use a currency other than your
local one.

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