Appearance of unwanted character in reports

[Derek Atkins]

Like I said, see the FAQ!

http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFaq#Q:_How_do_I_make_reports_not_display_the_same_strange_character_.28e.g._dashed_outlined_box.29_before_each_desired_character.3F

-derek

Quoting David Needs <djnjwd at ntlworld.com>:

>  make sure you're running in an iso-8859-1 locale and not a utf-8 locale. 
> 
> Do you mean changing the settings within SUSE generally, or within Gnucash? I
> 
> can't see any preference options for such a change in Gnucash itself.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Tuesday 26 April 2005 23:38, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 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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