commas in numbers?

[Steve Drach]

Works great!  Thanks David.  I feel comfortable again. ;-)

>> I switched from 1.8.10 on Debian Linux to 1.8.11 on Mac OS/X and I  
>> noticed the numbers don't have commas in them (i.e. $1000.00  
>> instead of $1,000.00).  I've searched everywhere for an option or  
>> preference to fix this.  Is there a way to do this?  I'm sure I'm  
>> not the only one bothered by this.
>>
>
> It's a locale issue. Something like OSX is by default utf8 aware,  
> but gnome1 isn't, so when gnucash gets launched, something about  
> monetary units gets lost or forgotten. I had this fixed once, but  
> either my Tiger upgrade or my machine upgrade unfixed it.
>
> export LC_MONETARY=en_US
> or
> setenv LC_MONETARY en_US
> depending on your shell.
>
> I just tried it and my commas came back.
>
> Dave
>