Gnucash & macOS High Sierra.

[Pam Dooner]

Changing the locale seems only to affect new accounts. I have tried to ask
for GBP but nothing has changed.
Pam


*Pam Dooner*

On 13 December 2017 at 19:39, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Yes, if you change your locale back to the old locale it should work again.
>
> -derek
>
> On Wed, December 13, 2017 1:34 pm, Pam Dooner wrote:
> > 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*
> >>
> >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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> >>
> >> -derek
> >> --
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> >
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