Very strange effect from setting LANG variable

[Doctorcam]

* John Pettigrew (john at pettigrew.org.uk) wrote:
> 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

I believe you need a "." in there:  LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"

Cam


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