Incorrect currency display

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hello Santosh,

Am 22.02.2016 um 09:17 schrieb 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

>From what I read, 3 things changed, not only one:
1. Your OS
2. Your Gnucash version
3. Your gouvernment pubished in 2010 the new currency symbol र (U+20B9)

Other windows users reported already
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742002 - Indian Rupee Symbol
appears as "?" marks
and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742868 - Problems with
setting Indian Currency Symbol to its Unicode character ₹

The latter has a workaround to set the correct symbol.

If you do not like it, you can follow
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Adjusting_Currency_Symbols
to replace it by 'INR' or whatever you like.

Regards
Frank

BTW, can one of the windows experts check what is wrong in the symbol
conversion (Bug742002)?