Gnucash & macOS High Sierra.

[Derek Atkins]

Changing the currency is not sufficient. You need to change how numbers are 
printed. I'm not sure how to do that on your platform.

-derek
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On December 13, 2017 1:44:52 PM Pam Dooner <pamdooner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>> >>
>> >> -derek
>> >> --
>> >>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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>> >>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>
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