balance sheet rollup-totals are $0

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:

> Charles Day [mailto:cedayiv at gmail.com] wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com>
> wrote:
> > > When I display a Balance Sheet report, rollup-totals display
> > > as $0.
> > >[...]
> >
> > By default, those various parent accounts ("Current Assets",
> > for example) don't include the children's balances. Check your
> > report options. On the "display" tab, change the "parent account
> > balances" option.
>
> Gosh, how embarrassingly simple.  Thanks!  I keep forgetting
> that reports have options. :-(
>
> > >[...]
> > > (Also, any way to tell Gnucash to suppress the "USD" texts,
> > > i.e. only explicitly display the currency when it is not
> > > the same as the default?)
> >
> > I don't know the answer, but I suspect that has something to do
> > with your locale. When I run a balance sheet with multiple currencies,
> > instead of "USD" I see "$".  I only see the three-letter symbols on
> > non-US currencies.
>
> Yes, when I set the Windows locale to English-US, Gnucash
> displays dollar amounts prefixed with "$" and yen amounts
> prefixed with "JPY" which is what I'd prefer to see.  Unfortunately,
> for several reasons I have to keep the system-wide locale set
> to Japanese.
>
> Any idea how to run Gnucash under Windows with an application-
> specific locale?  On *nix I guess I would do something like
>  LANG=en_US /usr/bin/gnucash ...
> but I don't know what the Windows equivalent would be.  I tried
> adding the line
>  SET LANG=en_US
> in the gnucash.bat file without effect.
>

I think that only affects the language. I'm not sure, but try adding this to
your gnucash.bat: SET LC_MONETARY=en_US

-Charles