Appearance of unwanted character in reports

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting David Needs <djnjwd at ntlworld.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to gnucash, and very impressed (I am an accountant).
> 
> My problem is that I have an unwanted character appearing in front of my £ 
> figures, like this:  £0.00	
> 
> I don't have any other display problems with my system.
> 
> Running SUSE 9.2
> 
> How can I format the reports to get rid of this?

make sure you're running in an iso-8859-1 locale and not a utf-8 locale.  Check
you LANG and LANGUAGE settings.  See the FAQ for more info

-derek

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