internationalizacion number format

[Morten Cools]

Hi again

The locale settings I am referring to are the locale settings for glibc,
not for KDE. I assume that is why gnucash is not affected by the locale
settings in KDE.

Using the command line I gave you, the LC_MONETARY is only set for that
program. To set it globally, you'll need to make it an environment
variable.

To set LC_MONETARY permanently for your user, you will need to add two
lines to the .bash_profile file in your home directory. Notice this file
is hidden (. in front of the name), so you might have to select some
option to view hidden files in your file manager. The lines you need to
add are:

LC_MONETARY=es_ES
export LC_MONETARY

Then you need to log out and back in, so that the profile will be
re-read.

Morten

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 15:23 +0200, Arthur Gregson wrote:
> 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
> 
> after using your commanline as above and saving the gnucash account file - 
> everything reverts to original format !!
> 
> 
> 
> 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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