Incorrect currency display

[Santhosh Paul]

Hi Frank,

     I edited the INR symbol in Tools --> Security Editor to "INR ". This
fixed the currency display problem everywhere in Gnucash.

     The next step is to find out why my system is unable to display the
Unicode symbol for INR, but that, as you suggested, is because my Windows 7
installation is unable to display the symbol.

     I'm satisfied, though. I can live without that symbol. INR is fine for
now.

     Thank you!

Santhosh

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)?
>
>
>


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