CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

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"Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za> writes:

> Thanks again but I  am afraid it is almost like you are speaking a
> different language.   I have gone to cmd prompt and typed the bash etc
> but it didn't recognise it.

You didn't say what OS/Distro you were using, so I just assumed Linux.
For Windows, use the answer given to you by another responder to
edit your windows environment.  Or you can edit the gnucash.bat
file and set the environment variable there.

> Xeena

-derek

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za>
> Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks, but I don't know what LC_COLLATE means and where to find it -
>>> sorry for my ignorance!
>>
>> LC_COLLATE is an environment variable.  You set it like you'd set
>> any other environment variable --- in your environment.  man bash(1)
>>
>>> If you could let me know how to carry out this procedure it would be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> bash% env LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8 gnucash &
>>
>>> I have put the opening balance as a payment as you suggested and the
>>> register seems to look ok.  Will reconcile and see if it works.
>>> Thanks again.
>>> Xeena
>>
>> You're welcome.
>>
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>> -derek
>>
>> -- 
>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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>
>
>

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available