comma in values greater than $999

[Dave Reed]

On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:16, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dave Reed <drlinux at columbus.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > On my Linux box, values greater than $999 or at least $9999 show up 
with 
> > a comma (i.e., $1,000 or $10,000). I got an Apple Powerbook and 
> > installed gnucash and gconf using fink and the numbers show up as 
$1000 
> > and $10000. I wonder if this is a locale issue and googled for a 
little 
> > bit but didn't find anything that helped. Any ideas?
> >
> > I haven't used it enough to notice anything regarding "disappearing 
> > transactions", but will probably enter data on both the Linux box 
and 
> > Powerbook for a week or two to see if anything strange happens.
> 
> Definitely sounds like a locale issue.
> 
> -derek


Figured it out - needed this on the Powerbook:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Dave