Completely unusable date input in RHEL 6 for cs_CZ locale

[John Ralls]

On Jul 19, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 15/07/14 06:35, John Ralls wrote:
>>> Hmm, and the bug doesn't look much hopeful (BTW, is it me or you
>>> who confuses glib and glibc? which one is a problem here?).
>> 
>> Depends on the version. I rewrote the date handling in 2.6 to use
>> GLib exclusively, while 2.4 and older versions used a mix of GLib and
>> libc for formatting and parsing. 2.8 will use
>> boost::calendar::gregorian.
>> 
>> The fix that Geert mentioned in the bug report is in 2.6.3. Please
>> try it if you haven't already, and comment on the bug report whether
>> it works for you or not.
> 
> Did I say my wife is on RHEL-6? But, yes when trying here on RHEL-7
> (gnucash-2.6.3-1.el7.x86_64) it seems to be fixed.
> 

2.6.3 should also work on RHEL-6, though you may not be able to get it from their package manager.

Regards,
John Ralls