Currency symbols

[Derek Atkins]

GnuCash only uses the currency symbol for the current system locale currency.
Indeed, it gets the currency symbol FROM the locale.  As a result it can
only use a single currency symbol at a time, and that is dictated by
the system locale currency.

So no, you cannot get GnuCash to display both £ and € at the same time
with the same data file.  You can do it in different data files at different
times by telling GnuCash to run in a different locale that would give
you GBP as the locale currency when you want to use £ and the EUR as
locale currency when you want to use €.

Hope this helps.

-derek

Quoting Phil Reynolds <phil-gnc at tinsleyviaduct.com>:

> When I run gnucash (2.2.6, from Debian stable) on the local display 
> of  my machine, it uses the £ symbol instead of the abbreviation 
> "GBP" -  which appears (or at least used to - that may now have 
> changed) when I  display it on a vnc server.
>
> I also have holdings in Euros - this appears as "EUR" in both  
> circumstances. I am wondering if the symbol € could be used instead.
>
> (Sorry if these symbols do not appear well for you - they are the  
> pound sterling and Euro symbols respectively.)
>
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> Phil Reynolds
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