Workaround for Localization Behaviour?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jan 18 10:09:28 EST 2008


Guillaume Lessard <glessard at tffenterprises.com> writes:

> Thanks Derek and Dave. With a little more digging I found a little bit  
> of clarification in "man locale".
>
> Now I have another question: my accounts are in USD and I have set the  
> default currency to USD (overriding the locale); when gnucash runs  
> with the fr_CA locale, then it displays "USD" rather than "$". I would  
> expect the default currency to be displayed by its sign, and other  
> currencies by their codes. Which is correct? My expectation or  
> gnucash? =)

GnuCash.  fr_CA implies French in Canada, so the locale currency would
be CAD.  What does "locale" give you in your environment setting
however you run GnuCash?

> Guillaume Lessard
> glessard at tffenterprises.com

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-derek

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