[GNC] Decimal separator on Gnucash 3.2 Mac

[Bert Riding]

I don't know about Macs, but the POSIX locale categories for this are
LC_MONETARY for how monetary quantities are shown, and LC_NUMERIC for
other numbers, defining decimal and thousands seperators among other
things.  See locale(5).

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:43:46 -0700
John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> I tested this a bit in the debugger and I with French as the primary
> language and Canada as the country [currentlocale objectForKey:
> NSLocaleLanguageCode] insists that the code in en, not French. If I
> tell System Prefs I'm in France it gets the right answer, so it might
> be an Apple bug.
> 
> Unfortunately setting LANG in the environment, though it will set the
> interface language, doesn't seem to change the number display, so
> there doesn't seem to be a way to force it at present.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> > On Jul 2, 2018, at 2:59 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > 
> > If you run GnuCash from a Terminal prompt do you get the right
> > separator?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >   
> >> On Jul 2, 2018, at 1:42 PM, Yves Forget via gnucash-user
> >> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> System Preferences/Language and Region says Region = Canada and
> >> language = french.  Advanced shows decimal separator is comma and
> >> thousands separator is space.  (These are default values for
> >> French Canada). Environment variable LANG=fr_CA.UTF_8 OpenOffice
> >> correctly uses comma as decimal separator. Is Gnucash supposed to
> >> use the parameters from the locale ?  Is there a way to force it ?
> >> Thanks, Yves Forget
> >> 
> >>   Le lundi 2 juillet 2018 15h48, R. Victor Klassen
> >> <rvklassen at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Maybe in Quebec it is a comma.  In the rest of the country it is a
> >> period.  
> >> 
> >> There should be a different locale for fr-canada than for
> >> en-canada.  I don’t know what else would differ across locales
> >> though. 
> >>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 3:42 PM, Yves Forget via gnucash-user
> >>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>  I’m new to GnuCash and just installed GnuCash 3.2 on Mac. OS X
> >>> 10.13 Gnucash uses the period as decimal separator instead of my
> >>> locale’s separator.  Here in Canada it should be comma.
> >>>  Should Gnucash use the decimal separator of my locale, or is it
> >>> always period ?  Is there a way to configure it within GnuCash ?
> >>>  Thanks,
> >>>  Yves Forget
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