GnuCash for Windows formatting bug?

[John Banner]

   The issue showed up as soon as I started putting in entries, i.e.
before I started even looking at changing any defaults.  I may have
changed a few since then, but it hasn't changed the behavior.

   Your comment about a broken Locale is actually the first thing that
jumped to my mind, but I am not certain where to look for that (it's
been a long time since I was familiar enough with Windows - or any
other system for that matter - to know where to look for that).  But
if it were a Locale issue, I would expect it to show up elsewhere, and
I haven't noticed it, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

   And to answer Maf's questions, yes I have checked the decimal
places and it's set to two (though the positive numbers look like
there are 4), and yes this shows up anywhere that a positive number is
displayed.

   Thanks,

            sjb.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi John
>
> John Banner <sjbanner at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>    A week or two ago I asked about an issue that I am having and I got
>> no replies at all, so I am going to try again.
>>
>>    I installed GnuCash for Windows off of the latest stable
>> distribution (2.2.8), and I have found that anywhere that GnuCash
>> displays a positive value (Zero or negative values are correct),
>> GnuCash adds a "11" to the end of the number.  The "11" doesn't
>> interfere with any calculations, and when I sent the data-file to a
>> friend running GnuCash on a Linux box, they aren't there.  If I go in
>> to edit a transaction in the register, they act like they are there
>> (but with the decimal point, I expect they are getting truncated if I
>> don't actually delete them).
>>
>>    Anyhow, they are really annoying and I would like to know how to
>> get rid of them.  I have looked through the manuals and haven't found
>> anything that would suggest this kind of behavior.
>>
>>    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
>
> I didn't reply before because this is the first time I've heard about
> this from anyone, and I was hoping one of the Windows devs would pipe
> in.
>
> Unfortunately I have no suggestions for you, because as I said I've
> never heard about it before.  It sounds like maybe you changed some
> configuration on your system?  Or maybe you have a broken locale?
> If the extra digits aren't causing issues then they could just be
> garbage being displayed, but why they display for you I do not know.
> Did you change /any/ default settings in GnuCash?
>
>>                   Thanks,
>>
>>                          sjb.
>
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> -derek
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