Exchange rate problem

[Derek Atkins]

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Nicolas Scheffer <nico at airboum.net> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> - trough the account register (bank account in USD) and where the dest
> account is an expense account in Euro, does not work

Hmm..  This is odd.  I've tested this here and it works fine.  What's
your LANG envionrment variable set to?  (Check it in your environment
where you start GnuCash).  Just to make sure, you have the USD account
open and try to transfer to the EUR account.  What display style do you
use, just a basic register?  Or do you use auto-split or journal mode?

> - trough the GL, it works, i have the rate dialog
> - trough Transfert Dialog, not tested yet

Well, the transfer dialog doesn't pop up the exchange-rate dialog ;)

> How can i check or how can you help me to troubleshoot this problem
> for the first case ?

You need to find out as much information as possible about your
execution environment.

> For the locale, i am using Mac OS X in English (and i am french!), use
> fink as default with unstable, and never set a locale different from
> the default for Gnucash.
> Perhaps i need to set a french locale before to launch Gnucash ? Sorry
> how to do it trough the term window ?

>From the term where you start gnucash, use 'printenv' to print your
whole environment.  That should tell you (well, me) everything I need
to know to try to reproduce the problem.

> Ok for the Bug files for the automatic rate update, i will wait, but
> an idea if the current cvs solved it ?

If current cvs solved it I wouldn't have pointed you to an open bug report,
duh!

> Regards
>
> Nicolas

-derek

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