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

[David T.]

More to the point,  Cam, have you tried the workaround mentioned in the bug? You might be able to alleviate your current difficulty. ..
David

 
 
  On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:20, Mike Evans<mikee at saxicola.co.uk> wrote:   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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