Account hierarchical numbering

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Colin Scott-2 wrote:
> 
> a very large task, and not one likely to be justifiable.
> 

Let me explain first the importance of this. Unlike the Anglosphere, many
countries use a national chart of accounts with hierarchical numbering. The
French style doesn't use dots, so the number of sub-accounts at any level is
limited to ten. But "216" has to be sorted before 31, since "216" means
2.1.6 while "31" means "3.1". Such a system is used at least in Belgium, the
Czeck republic, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Spain,
Sweden, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic
, Congo, Gabon, Chad, the Comores, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Marroco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia.
Russia uses a national chart of accounts with, it seems, simple numbers.
Many former communist countries have a national chart of accounts with
numbers, but I don't know exactly which kind of numbers. Mongolia, to get
rid of the limitation to 10 subaccounts, chose an explicitly hierarchical
numbering, with dots.

Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> 
> the "tag" is used only to sort the records, not 
> printed, etc. no need for an output edit.
> 
> It might help us understand the need if the objection to entering the 
> data with the appropriate lead zeros was explained (since with that, 
> sort works now)
> 
Several of these countries, including Mongolia, require the number to be
written in the report, which I can't or don't know how to do with GnuCash.
This is why adding extra zeros is a workaround but not an excellent idea,
because it doesn't look like the official system. In fact, several countries
using a national chart of accounts, including Mongolia, use also a
compulsory form to fill. A good improvement would be that the report style
be much more configurable than it is presently, so that we could mimic the
official document.
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