Appearance of unwanted character in reports

[Robert Heller]

  David Needs <djnjwd at ntlworld.com>,
  In a message on Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:18:48 +0100, wrote :

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

This is more of a general Linux config / user shell config / environment
variable thing, but basically you need to do one of:

A) Change the system wide locale.  There should be some file in
(usually) /etc/sysconfig/, I think i18n, that you need to edit this
file to remove the .UTF-8.

B) Edit your .bash_login, .profile, or .login (depending on your shell)
and (re)-define LANG as apropoate.

C) Create a three line shell script:

#!/bin/bash
export LANG=YourLocale
gnucash

save this in say, ~/bin/gnucash_wrap.sh, make it executable (chmod +x
~/bin/gnucash_wrap.sh), and then edit your desktop shortcut to run this
instead of the normal gnucash binary.

Option A affects all users on your system, option B affects only you,
but all applications you might run, and option C is specific to gnucash.

DN> 
DN> Dave
DN> 
DN> 
DN> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 00:53, you wrote:
DN> > Like I said, see the FAQ!
DN> >
DN> > http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFaq#Q:_How_do_I_make_reports_
DN> >not_display_the_same_strange_character_.28e.g._dashed_outlined_box.29_before
DN> >_each_desired_character.3F
DN> >
DN> > -derek
DN> >
DN> > Quoting David Needs <djnjwd at ntlworld.com>:
DN> > >  make sure you're running in an iso-8859-1 locale and not a utf-8 locale.
DN> > >
DN> > > Do you mean changing the settings within SUSE generally, or within
DN> > > Gnucash? I
DN> > >
DN> > > can't see any preference options for such a change in Gnucash itself.
DN> > >
DN> > > Thanks for your help,
DN> > >
DN> > > Dave
DN> > >
DN> > > On Tuesday 26 April 2005 23:38, Derek Atkins wrote:
DN> > > > Quoting David Needs <djnjwd at ntlworld.com>:
DN> > > > > Hi,
DN> > > > >
DN> > > > > I'm new to gnucash, and very impressed (I am an accountant).
DN> > > > >
DN> > > > > My problem is that I have an unwanted character appearing in front of
DN> > > > > my £ figures, like this:  £0.00
DN> > > > >
DN> > > > > I don't have any other display problems with my system.
DN> > > > >
DN> > > > > Running SUSE 9.2
DN> > > > >
DN> > > > > How can I format the reports to get rid of this?
DN> > > >
DN> > > > make sure you're running in an iso-8859-1 locale and not a utf-8
DN> > > > locale. Check you LANG and LANGUAGE settings.  See the FAQ for more
DN> > > > info
DN> > > >
DN> > > > -derek
DN> 
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