Removal of currency prefix in Ubuntu

[keithclark1966 at gmail.com]

Thanks Geert, I'll give that a shot!


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
wrote:

>  On Thursday 21 August 2014 21:31:52 keithclark1966 at gmail.com wrote:
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> > I'm trying to remove the currency prefix, 'C' in my case. I am
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> > already using locale en_CA in Ubuntu and have also chose Canadian as
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> > my currency in GNUCash. Is there anyway to do this? With this
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> > prefix, it makes exporting reports to a spreadsheet useless as I
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> > cannot use the values in the cells.
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> > Thanks!
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> > Keith
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> Hi Keith,
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> You have run into a known bug [1], which will be fixed in the next version
> of GnuCash (2.6.4).
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> In the meantime you can use Tools->Security Editor to correct the symbol.
> It will open a list of known securities. You may have to tick "Show
> National Currencies" to list those as well. From the list you can then
> select CAD to edit and remove the "C" from the "Display Symbol".
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> Regards,
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> Geert
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> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723145
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