[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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