Using Gnucash

[Stuart Bailey]

That's great. I thought it would be something like that, but being a KDE user 
I didn't know where to change the char set.

Many thanks,

Stuart.

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 14:43, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 15:45, Stuart Bailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just started using Gnucash (1.8.8) for my business and have a couple
> > of queries regarding reports:
> >
> > When I display a report (doesn't matter which one), all currency fields
> > have an A in front of the pound sign (GBP) eg: £16.00. I would like to
> > know how to get rid of this.
>
> Hi Stuart
>
> That is related to your charset.  Gnucash is a gnome-1 app, and as such
> doesn't understand UTF-8 encoding.  If you set your LANG to something like
> en_GB.ISO-8859-1 (for British English)  the strange characters will be
> gone.
>
> you can put a couple of lines into your gnucash start up script
> (/opt/gnome/bin/gnucash in my case) to do this for gnucash only:
>
> somewhere before the exec "gnucash" line, put the following 2 lines:
>
> LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
> export LANG
>
> hope that helps,
> Maf.
>
>
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