Selling of stock does not work

[Derek Atkins]

hi,

Please keep all messages CC'd to gnucash-user so everyone can benefit
from the questions and answers (and so it gets into the public
archive).

If you're using the German Locale then your "locale currency" is
Euro...  So you are NOT performing an "all-USD" transaction.  You
are performing a USD/Euro/Stock multi-commodity transaction, which
does not work from the stock register.

The umlaut issue has been discussed to death on the lists.  Please see
the FAQ about setting your locale to a non-UTF8 locale.  This is a bug
in gtkhtml and wont get fixed until gnucash finishes the gnome2/gtk2 port.

The "sum" issue has been fixed in CVS.

The menu without text is, I bet, the "Saved Reports" menu item, which
is empty until reports get saved.  Ideally the menu shouldn't exist until
at least one report is saved.  Feel free to file a bug report on that
at bugzilla.gnome.org.

-derek

Stephan Pouh <smpouh at gmx.at> writes:

> Derek,
>
> I use the German locale, comma for the decimal places. I also use the European 
> Date format and keyboard layout, although the keyboard is US. In Gnucash I 
> set the date format to "Use System setting". However, Gnucash (the reports) 
> does not show Umlaute, ö, ä, ü, ... but simply ignores them. Even the system 
> generated words such as "Erträge" (income). When I edited the file on my 
> travel system, a different Computer, and put the file back on my main machine 
> all Umlaute would not show, but when I clicked on the entry (some expenses I 
> put in) to add the missing characters into the remark the writing in the 
> remark field would simply vanish. I therefore redid all entries from my 
> business trip. I then tried to do the sale with an old backup on the main 
> machine - same problem.
>
> I also noticed that on the "travel" system with 1.8.9 the sum of all my assets 
> was considerably higher in the overview than on 1.8.8. (230.000 vs. 197.000).
>
> Don't worry however, I will try a newer version - actually I will try the sale 
> on the 1.8.9 version I have and let you know if it works there.
>
> (By the way, one of the menues simply appears as line, without text).
>
> Do you think this might have to do with it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan
> On Friday 15 October 2004 03:03, you wrote:
>> Are you using the en_US locale when you try doing it all in USD?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Stephan Pouh <smpouh at gmx.at> writes:
>> > Derek,
>> >
>> > I have some more info on this. Thank you for your response, before i
>> > elaborate. It feels good to know it is a bug, not the big one in front of
>> > the screen ;-)
>> >
>> > I tried to do it entirely in USD, to no avail. It somehow became broke
>> > when I edited the file with 1.8.9 (on a business trip with a computer
>> > having a newer version.

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