Putting currency on some/all lines of invoice?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:32:48PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> Change your locale currency to something that isn't USD and then print
> the invoice.

Aha.  This works well, thanks.

Probably I've missed this in the documentation somewhere; but in case
I haven't, here's a proposed patch to make this more obvious to people
like me.

<h$n>Controlling the currency symbol in reports and invoices</h$n>

<p>The currency symbol that appears in reports and invoices is
influenced by the locale settings of the user that starts GnuCash.
The particular locale setting is LC_MONETARY.  You can make reports
and invoices appear differently by changing this value.  The
LC_MONETARY locale setting defines the "native" currency; that
currency always displays using the currency symbol defined by the
locale.  Other amounts are displayed with an indication of the
currency for that value.  So, for instance, if your LC_MONETARY value
is en_US.UTF-8, then US dollar values will display with "$", but
Canadian dollar amounts will display with "CAD".  Conversely, if your
LC_MONETARY valye is en_CA.UTF-8, US dollar amounts will display with
"USD", but Canadian dollar amounts will display with "$".</p>

Thanks for your help,

A

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