Problems trying to get currency separator correct for CAD

[John Ralls]

On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:58 PM, bunk3m wrote:

> Thank you, John.
> 
> In the earlier part of my post which I guess got lost, I mentioned that
> I had already tried to do this using the wiki post.
> 
> In the FAQ it says to do the following command to customize: "defaults
> write -app Gnucash AppleLocale = "en_US at currency=CAD" "
> 
> This command should actually be:
> 
>    defaults write -app /Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash.app
> AppleLocale="en_US at currency=CAD"
> 
> But I get an error:
>   2011-07-20 13:42:44.553 defaults[4877:10b]
>   Rep argument is not a dictionary
>   Defaults have not been changed.
> 
> Can you help me with understanding why the command didn't work?

Apparently not; it isn't working for me on my MBA, either. 

The syntax *is* correct in the FAQ article. See "Specifying Domains" in the defaults manpage. I'll have to figure out why it doesn't work for Gnucash.

Regards,
John Ralls