725512: (The official symbol for Canadian dollar is "$", not "C$" )

[Mike Evans]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:04:45 -0800
Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonet.ca> wrote:

> On 03/01/16 06:32 PM, listreader wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:50:45 -0500
> > "R. Victor Klassen" <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This has been open for about a year and a half now, since it was
> >> introduced with the upgrade to 2.6.x.
> >>
> > [snip]
> >
> >> With every release I have been hoping to see that this has been
> >> addressed,   Is there any idea which release will have this fixed?
> >
> > None of my business, really, as I'm just another user, but last time I
> > checked gnucash was open-source software.  Instead of whining, you
> > could always modify the source to your liking and rebuild it yourself.
> >
> > Or, maybe, again instead of whining, if you asked the developers really
> > nicely to change it, perhaps they would oblige.  But the whining is
> > guaranteed to get you nowhere.  And it also annoys all the other
> > ordinary users, like me.
> >
> What would be appropriate - beyond my capacity to actually put into 
> effect - is to have the symbol reflect the locale.  As things stand with 
> GC, it's very obviously US-centric, despite its use by people around the 
> world who use a wide variety of currencies and currency symbols.  That's 
> partly a function of the fact that its development has been done 
> primarily in the US by American contributors: such $-centrism is 
> inevitable.  However, when there is already a complaint/request filed 
> against the practice of denoting Canadian amounts by C$, and there is 
> not a comparable practice for denoting US dollar amounts by U$ or some 
> such (the Mexican peso uses the same symbol: not sure what happens 
> there), you can hardly blame people in other countries with other 
> currencies for thinking that there is a bias against those currencies.  
> Given that we want greater use and availability of open source software 
> that's not the sort of attitude we want to cultivate (having bias or 
> thinking that there is a bias).
> 
> "Whining" is a rather strong word for repetition of a complaint/report 
> that hasn't been dealt with.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Cam
> 

If you read the bug referenced by bug 725512, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723145 you will find there are currently 32 comments with proposed solutions and patches so I don't think anyone can say that this issue is being ignored. It is also clear that the solution is not a trivial one. Incidentally, as far I am aware only one of the current active developers is in the USA.

Mike E


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