Appearance of unwanted character in reports

[David Needs]

Thank you; this does solve the problem, but the advice given in the FAQ wiki 
only works if you edit the LANG/locale settings in a shell, and then run 
Gnucash from that shell. The FAQ does not suggest a way of permanently 
keeping the settings so that it can be run without resorting to the command 
line every time...

Dave


On Wednesday 27 April 2005 00:53, you wrote:
> 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