Question on buying new shares (confused)

[Hale Boyes, Kevin]

Angela wrote:
> I followed this guide:
>
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/invest-buy-stock1.html
> for buying new stocks (the bottom image is broken, BTW). I believe
> I've put it all down correctly, as I followed everything almost to
> the letter (just substituting my own numbers). All's good until... I
> go back out to my accounts and I see that the account I transfered
> from (Assets:Bank ABC in the example in the docs) still has the
> original amount of money in it. Is this normal? Is this supposed to
> happen? I was expecting that the money, er, disappears from the bank
> account. 

I'm pretty sure it is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353
I had one point thought of fixing this bug but I couldn't come up with
a very good solution and then ran out of time.  This issue does pop
up fairly regularly on this list though.

My work around is to set the LC_MONETARY environment variable properly
before I run GnuCash.  Sorry I don't know how to do this on Windows.
When I'm entering trades that go against a CAD cash account I run GC as:

LC_MONETARY=en_CA /usr/bin/gnucash file

and against a USD cash account:

LC_MONETARY=en_US /usr/bin/gnucash file

K.

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