Very strange effect from setting LANG variable

John Pettigrew john at pettigrew.org.uk
Tue Jun 8 11:26:57 EDT 2004


After the recent posts about changing the language of GnuCash to ISO-8859-1,
so as to avoid the extra character before the currency symbol when using
UTF-8, I have two problems.

The first, I've already mentioned - instead of the £ symbol for pounds
sterling, GnuCash is using GBP. This is workable but far from ideal for
invoices!

The second is more bizarre and I've only just spotted it. On Customer reports,
the individual rows are given as GBP, but the "Total due" line is marked as $!
The numbers are correct, it's just the currency labels that are bonkers.

Any ideas?

FWIW, the lines I added to the gnucash script are:

#Setting the language to remove odd characters before pound signs
LANG="en_GB-ISO-8859-1"
export LANG


TiA

John
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