Appearance of unwanted character in reports

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> G'day David,
> 
> * David Needs <djnjwd at ntlworld.com> [050427 15:34]:
> 
>>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...
> 
> 
> I guess you want this to work for clicking on the GnuCash icon?
> 
> Create a script that looks something like:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> LANG=en.AU gnucash
> 
> (where the LANG is the one you want...  I'm sorry, but I deleted the
> start of this thread and can't remember the one you want!)
> 
> Make it executable ( chmod a+x gnucash-script )
> 
> Then change the command that your GnuCash button runs to be this
> script.
> 
> 
> There might be an easier way however.

this way you'll be running in a shell, which you should do anyway for 
error reporting and the like...

A
> 
> 
> Fortunately this won't break anything if you make a mistake somewhere
> along the way!
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> S.
> 
> 
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