Strange extra character in text reports

[Derek Atkins]

John Pettigrew <john at pettigrew.org.uk> writes:

> In a previous message, "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>
>> 3. edit /opt/gnome/bin/gnucash and add these 2 lines somewhere before the
>> exec line:
>> 
>> LANG="en_GB-ISO-8859-1"
>> export LANG
>
> Did that - very nice. Oddly, as well as changing the symbol used for the
> currency, it also makes GnuCash suddenly use the configured desktop font. No
> idea why that's happening!
>
> Anyhow, this is something of an improvement, except that it's now using 'GBP'
> instead of the £ symbol!

Try en_GB.ISO-8859-1 (GB.ISO instead of GB-ISO)

> John

-derek

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