AUD on every item

[prl]

In Australia, but an OS X environment, not Windows.

I have the standard "Australia" settings in System Preferences>Language 
& Text>Region, except for a single customisation: I use a 24-hour clock 
(13:45, not 1:45PM). The settings shown in the System Preferences for me 
are:

Date: Saturday, 5 January 2013; 5 January 2013; 05/01/2013; 5/1/13
Times: 00:34; 16:56
Numbers: $1,234.56; 1,234.56; 123,456%; 1.23456E3
Currency: Australian Dollar
Measurement Units: Metric

I haven't made any of the changes suggested in 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings.

Gnucash (2.4.13) shows the correct date format when I select 
Gnucash>Preferences>Date/Time>Date Format as "Locale", and in 
Gnucash>Preferences>Reports>Default Report Currency, I also have 
"Locale" selected. Could Joe's problem be worked around just by 
selecting Default Report Currency as Choose: AUD (Australian Dollar)?

For me, reports show AUD on the currency axis of bar graphs, "$123.45 
(12.34%)" as the values in the legend on pie charts and as plain numbers 
"123.45" when I ask for tables.

That seems reasonable, but I wouldn't really be bothered if they all 
showed up as AUD.

On the matter of setting the locales described in
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_Language_on_OSX
the instructions for using the "defaults" command line program on OS X 
in appear to be dated. The defaults program doesn't have a --app 
ApplicationName option (any more?). Instead, it's:

   defaults <operation> <Domain> ...

where <Domain> is typically an application name.

so, for example,

   defaults write -app Gnucash AppleLanguages '(de, en)'

should be

   defaults write Gnucash AppleLanguages '(de, en)'

I think.


Peter


On 24/08/13 04:29, Michael Hendry wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2013, at 15:08, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Joe,
>>
>> Before you give up, one last thing to try.  From the actual
>> gnucash documentation:
>>
>>   http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-help/chang-lang.html
>>
>> Can you edit the 'environment' file (using an editor like Notepad),
>> uncomment the LANG and LANGUAGE settings, and change it to:
>>
>> LANG=en_AU
>> LANGUAGE={LANG}
>>
>> Then restart gnucash?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -derek
> Yeah, stick with it, Joe!
>
> There must be some Aussies out there who are using GC without this problem.
>
> Michael
>
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