Fwd: Currency definition fpr account missing

[Jannick]

Bug just filed - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781634

Hajo, please add any observation to the bug report you think to be helpful for the devels. Thanks.

/J.

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:50:40 +0200, Hajo Hindriks wrote:

> Yesterday I entered a sell transaction for a fund, and strangely the total
> amount didn't change the balance of the account where the money was
> added..
> 
> Today I downgraded to 2.6.15 and the message abount missiing currency
> information when opening an account is gone. I didn't do more systematic
> testing, but it seems to be an issue introduced with the 2.6.26 version on
> windows.. As J. is also running a German version it could be locale related.
> 
> regards, Hajo
> 
> On 21.04.2017 17:32, David Carlson wrote:
> > Hajo,
> >
> > Please include Gnucash-user at gnucash.org in your replies.
> >
> > Since another user has the same issue and GnuCash did make some
> > changes in the currency area in recent releases there may be a new
> > bug.  I could suggest staying with Ubuntu, but there are thousands (at
> > least) of Windows users that would not like that response.
> >
> > Perhaps a developer could give us more insight (hint hint ;) ).
> >
> > David C
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Hajo Hindriks <hhn10 at gmx.net>
> > Date: Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:13 AM
> > Subject: Re: Currency definition fpr account missing
> > To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> > no, I did not.. no virtual machine. I have used Gnucash on the windows
> > machine before with earlier versions of gnucash, there was no such
> > problem and I have not changed the installation, so I don't think my
> > windows machine has a changed locale, those settings are all "German
> > (Switzerland)". The only thing that changed is that I installed the
> > latest version using chocolatey whereas before I installed gnucash
> manually.
> >
> > Hajo
> >
> > On 21.04.2017 14:35, David Carlson wrote:
> >
> >> Hajo,
> >>
> >> Did you solve your problem?  I do not use multiple currencies so I am
> >> not an expert, but the fact that your Windows version has the problem
> >> but your Ubuntu version does not suggests to me that your windows
> >> machine has an issue with the locale  in the environment settings.
> >> If it happens to be a virtual machine it may have defaulted to a US setting.
> >>
> >> David C
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Hajo Hindriks <hhn10 at gmx.net <mailto:
> >> hhn10 at gmx.net>> wrote:
> >>
> >>      Hi all
> >>
> >>      since upgrading to version 2.6.16 on windows I get a strange message
> >>      on opening my file:
> >>
> >>      In German: "Kontowährung konnte nicht bestimmt werden.
> Stattdessen
> >>      wird die voreingestellte Systemwährung verwendet."
> >>
> >>      Something like "Currency of account could not be determined, using
> >>      predefined system currency."
> >>
> >>      I get this each time I am opening an account tab. When entering a
> >>      transaction it asks me for the exchange rate between the two
> >>      accounts, the dialog prefilled with the right currencies (CHF ->
> >>      CHF), and 1.0 as rate.
> >>
> >>      Strangely if I open the same file on ubuntu there is no such
> >>      message. I am using sqlite to save the file.
> >>
> >>      Anybody seen this? Should I stop using windows to access the file?
> >>
> >>      tia, Hajo