Gnucash & macOS High Sierra.

[Pam Dooner]

Thank you for this explanation. If I change my locale to UK, will
everything then be OK? Otherwise how do I change the SX definitions?
Regards,
Pam


*Pam Dooner*

On 13 December 2017 at 16:30, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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