Gnucash & macOS High Sierra.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Pam Dooner <pamdooner at gmail.com> writes:

> yes, definitely 2.6.18. Just tried again and this time managed to get a
> pop-up saying "An error occurred while processing 0.99"
> I am trying to change all my decimal points to commas to coincide with the
> euro locale that I have to use now it seems. In the older versions, there
> was no issue with commas and points. I have UK accounts and european
> accounts so ought to be able to use both but this version (and the previous
> one) seem to cause the error if I try to use a decimal point. So I'll have
> to try to edit the file elsewhere and re-import it. I had hoped there might
> have been a way of globally changing all previous entries with a decimal
> point to commas. In the actual accounts, it has changed them all to commas
> but not in scheduled transactions!
> Pam

Scheduled Transactions do not survive a locale change, specifically a
change where the decimal separator changes characters.  The reason is
that the SX data is stored as text, not as a numeric, so "99/100" gets
stored as 0.99 and then it expects to be parsed as 0.99 -- however if
you change your locale so that a comma is a decimal separator then
GnuCash expects to read back 0,99.  But when it sees 0.99 it doesn't
know how to interpret that.

The only fix is to change the SX definitions, or to change your locale
specification of (IIRC) LC_NUMERIC back to the old style.

I don't know if there is a way change the character from within the program.

> *Pam Dooner*

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-derek
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