internationalizacion number format

[Robert Heller]

In message <200505041523.14077.arthurg at arrakis.es>, Arthur Gregson writes:
>On Wednesday 04 May 2005 12:06, you wrote:
>ok checked my locale settings - set to euro/madrid
>still don't work
>used your commandline LC_MONETARY=es_ES gnucash - works a treat, but, 2 
>questions....
>
>how do i set enviromental variable & how do i incorporate the commandline 
>(LC_MONETARY=es_ES gnucash) into the kmenu system - am using suse 9.3 and 
>just want to click on gnucash to bring program up
>
>at the moment my menu is showing this path ('/opt/gnome/bin/gnucash') - and 
>need to know how to add the above commandline as an extention to to my path

There are several options. You can:

1) Edit the system-wide local settings (somewhere usually in
/etc/sysconfig/ is a file named i18n, to which you can add the line

LC_MONETARY=es_ES

This will affest ALL uses.

2) Edit your .bash_login, .profile, or .login file and add a line like:

# sh and variants (bash, etc.)
export LC_MONETARY=es_ES

# csh and variants (tcsh, etc.)
setenv LC_MONETARY es_ES

This will take affect the next time you login and will affect all of
your applications.

3) Create a new file under your home directory, say in ~/bin/ named
gnucash_wrapper.sh, and insert into this file the following 3 lines (using a
text editor like emacs or vi):

#!/bin/sh
export LC_MONETARY=es_ES
/opt/gnome/bin/gnucash $*

Make this file executable:

chmod +x ~/bin/gnucash_wrapper.sh

Then update your menu item to use the path:

~/bin/gnucash_wrapper.sh

(you may or may not need to replace the '~' with the actual path to
your home directory (such as /home/morten, making the path
/home/morten/bin/gnucash_wrapper.sh). 

>
>after using your commanline as above and saving the gnucash account file - 
>everything reverts to original format !!

The environment variables are not stored in the account file, nor is the
currency symbols and other formatting information.  Just the raw
numbers.  How those numbers are displayed or printed is determined at
run time, at which time the environment variables are checked.

>
>
>
>thanx for all your help
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The number format is based on your locale settings. To just change the
>> monetary settings you would either add the environment variable
>> 'LC_MONETARY=es_ES', or start gnucash with the commandline
>> 'LC_MONETARY=es_ES gnucash'
>>
>> Morten
>>
>> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:51 +0200, Arthur Gregson wrote:
>> > been using gnucashcash for a few days - all ok - but need to change
>> > number format to reflect european format..
>> >
>> > e.g.
>> > using euro (configured in gnucash)
>> > date format (configured in gnucash)
>> > but now need to change number format.....
>> >
>> > usa & uk use number format - 1000,150.00 - seems to be hard configured in
>> > gnucash
>> >
>> > europe uses 1000.150,00 -  notice the position of the comma & the dot
>> >
>> > i assume there is a config file somewhere - but no success so far.
>> >
>> > thanx
>
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