comma in values greater than $999

[Dave Reed]

On Monday 29 November 2004 12:32, David Reiser wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2004, at 8:44 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Dave Reed <drlinux at columbus.rr.com> writes:
> >
> >> Figured it out - needed this on the Powerbook:
> >>
> >> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > hmm, I'm not sure that the ".UTF-8" part will work properly.  
Gtk-1.2
> > doesn't handle utf-8, so if you're using this locale and you use 
some
> > non-ascii characters (e.g. chars with accents) you may get strange
> > results.  YMMV.
> >
> >> Dave
> >
> > -derek
> 
> LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1"
> export LANG
> 
> worked for me to get the commas to appear in large numbers without 
> resorting to UTF. (Mac OS X 10.3.6, gnucash built via fink)
> 
> I suppose I ought to figure out just what OS X does when interacting 
> with gnome when no LANG is specified. Ah well, add it to the list of 
> things yet to be done...

Thanks - I switched to that. 

Dave