Mixed-currency transactions broken in Gnucash 2?

[Tim Jackson]

Chris Shoemaker wrote:

>> This has worked fine for years, but with GnuCash 2, foreign currency 
>> transactions seem to break in a worrying way which actually undermines 
>> GnuCash's basic principle (i.e. double-entry accounting).
> 
> Yes, this is a bug, and actually, it has never worked correctly. :(
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139651

Eek.

Maybe I've just been lucky in the past, then (or maybe I never did a 
split transaction, though I thought I did). In fact, the way GC handled 
multiple currencies was one of the things that really impressed me in 
the early days of using GnuCash - I was dreading trying to do stuff 
across currencies but then it "just worked" and I thought "cool, that 
was so easy and seamless"!

Thanks for the pointer.  Maybe as a workaround I can split it into 2 
simple transactions.

Tim