Incorrect currency display

[Santhosh Paul]

Hi Geert,

      Thanks for your interest in this.

      I tried your approach, only to be confronted with the question: which
font should I apply?

     Before I continue, I should say that this currency description problem
did not occur in Gnucash 2.4, which I used for many years. It was only when
I recently installed Gnucash 2.6.6 under Windows 7 on a new PC that this
problem appeared.

      I still have Gnucash 2.4 running on my old Windows XP PC, so I
checked the Report stylesheet first. It uses Tahoma, so I changed my 2.6.6
Report stylesheet font to Tahoma. Unfortunately, the incorrect display
remains.

      I then checked the theme 2.4 uses: it's called MS-Windows (or perhaps
"Windows"), which is not available in 2.6.6. Do you think I should try the
available schemes one by one?

      So, I'm back to square one. Gnucash displays "INR" correctly, so I
wonder why version 2.6.6 cannot.

      I did some poking around on the Net. A currency can be specified in
the Security Editor under Tools. Bu I don't think this is relevant, because
I don't use securities.

      Is this a bug? I found this:

<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723145>

     Not sure if it has anything to do with my problem.

     For the curious, I attach a sample transaction report in HTML format.
This is how the currency symbol looks on the Gnucash opening main accounts
page. In the report, the symbol does not look like this: it appears to be
superimposed over the first or two digits of the numbers displayed in the
report.

     I would be grateful for any suggestions. I'm pining for good old  INR.
:-)

Santhosh


On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On Saturday 20 February 2016 16:54:34 Santhosh Paul wrote:
> > I'm using Gnucash 2.6.6 under Windows 7.
> >
> > My problem is that the currency is displayed incorrectly in the
> > opening Accounts page when Gunucash loads, even though I've specified
> > INR as the currency in Preferences. The currency is now displayed as
> > a kind of rectangle with some illegible characters inside it. In
> > transaction reports, this rectangle overlaps with the first digits of
> > numbers, making the value hard to figure out.
> >
> > I'd settle for INR as the displayed currency, but the currency symbol
> > would be super. The dollar symbol is displayed perfectly.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Santhosh
>
> Hi Santhosh,
>
> It may be your gnucash installation is using a font that's not having the
> currency symbol you
> want to use.
>
> Depending on which part of gnucash you want to use a different font there
> are two ways to do
> so:
>
> 1. All of gnucash, except for the reports: Gnucash ships with a small tool
> "Select Theme" which
> can be used to change the font used by gnucash. You should find it in the
> start menu in the
> same group as gnucash.
>
> 2. For reports, you can change font settings via the stylesheets used by
> the reports.
> Stylesheets can be configured via menu Edit->Style Sheets.
>
> Let us know if this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
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  Transaction Report

  From 01/10/2015 To 21/02/2016

   Date Num Description Memo/Notes Amount
   [1]Photon
   October 2015
   07/10/2015 [2]₹395.00
   Total For October 2015 ₹395.00
   November 2015
   06/11/2015 [3]₹395.00
   Total For November 2015 ₹395.00
   January 2016
   06/01/2016 [4]₹397.00
   Total For January 2016 ₹397.00
   February 2016
   05/02/2016 [5]₹397.00
   Total For February 2016 ₹397.00
   Total For Photon ₹1,584.00
     __________________________________________________________________

   Grand Total ₹1,584.00

References

   1. gnc-register:acct-guid=e0302a2ffdefbc389de1bf7521dcecf3
   2. gnc-register:trans-guid=a1796ce2c42370de50829530bc432e4d
   3. gnc-register:trans-guid=24de70fc46c7d5f1d2e4341e99f14c46
   4. gnc-register:trans-guid=dbde7afbb1e8c0b922e83fbcf4e42e53
   5. gnc-register:trans-guid=294dab012bb61ba0ccad06c44e74add9