[GNC] Decimal points messed up
Axel Essbaum
axel at essbaum.com
Thu Aug 29 17:36:53 EDT 2019
> On 29 Aug 2019, at 22:47, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 29, 2019, at 9:26 AM, Axel Essbaum <axel at essbaum.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, just to be clear, after setting:
>>
>> defaults write -app /Applications/Gnucash.app AppleLocale 'en_GB.UTF-8’
>>
>> I get the right thousands separator and decimal, but the currency shows as SFr. despite setting currency in GnuCash / Prefs / Accounts and Reports to CHF. Not sure if this gives some insight into the problem, that GC's own prefs are being ignored.
>>
>> GC actually sticks to SFr. no matter what I change AppleLocale OR the macOS UI prefs
>
> Ah! As Adrien pointed out, "SFr." is the Display Symbol for Swiss Franc. You can change it to something else in Tools>Security Editor. Turn on "show national currencies", find CHF in the list, and double-click it.
>
> The lack of a space is because in the UK it's normal to write £1 rather than £ 1. You might be able to work around that by including a trailing space in the CHF display symbol.
CHF + the trailing space worked!! Hallelujah.
Thank you John!!
- Axel
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