Strange extra character in text reports

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon May 31 18:27:13 EDT 2004


You can put it in the FAQ yourself..  :)

-derek

Daniel Andrews <daniel.andrews at ntlworld.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all your advice and help.... one for the GNUCash FAQ's
>
> I found out how to fix the odd characters appearing in my text reports:
>
> I edited .dmrc in my home directory to read:
>
> 8< snip
>
> [Desktop]
> Session=01KDE
> #Language=en_GB.UTF-8
> Language=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
>
> 8< snip
>
> Now everything is fine ;-)
>
> Daniel
>
> On Monday 31 May 2004 06:48 pm, Daniel Andrews wrote:
>> Hi Maf,
>>
>> I'm being thick, I can see I have that locale available, I just can't
>> figure out how to change to it.  What did you do to set your locale?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Monday 31 May 2004 05:01 pm, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>> > Message: 9
>> > Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:46:05 +0100
>> > From: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
>> > Subject: Re: Strange extra character in text reports
>> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> > Message-ID: <200405311346.07821.maf at chilwell.net>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >
>> > On Sunday 30 May 2004 19:00, Daniel Andrews wrote:
>> > > I seem to have gained an extra "Â" before the pound sign and I can't
>> > > seem to find how to remove it.
>> > >
>> > > Help anyone?
>> >
>> > I saw this problem too, until I changed my locale from en_GB.utf8 to
>> > en_GB.ISO-8859-1 and then the "extra" character went away.
>> >
>> > hope that is of some use,
>> >
>> > Maf.
>
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