[GNC] Decimal points messed up

[John Ralls]

From history it looks like the local currency symbols including "SFr." were introduced for 2.4. It's quite possible that the reports in question hadn't yet changed to use them.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Aug 29, 2019, at 2:25 PM, Axel Essbaum <axel at essbaum.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> In 2.4 I have GC / Prefs / Accounts&Reports / Default Currency as CHF and I see printed "CHF" with a space between CHF and the value.
> 
> In 3.6 I have GC / Prefs / Accounts&Reports / Default Currency as CHF and I see printed "SFr." with no space between SFr. and the value.
> 
> So... did SFr. not exist in 2.4 days?
> 
> - Axel
> 
> —
> Axel Essbaum
> axel at essbaum.com
> 
> 
> 
>> On 29 Aug 2019, at 22:25, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>> For completeness,
>> 
>> CHF *is* SFr.
>> 
>> CHF is the code for the currency.
>> 
>> SFr. is what appears as a currency symbol on reports.
>> 
>> For example, USD is the code for ‘U.S. Dollar’ and the currency symbol is ‘$’. You won’t see ‘USD’ on reports and you won’t see ‘CHF’ on reports.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Aug 29, 2019 w35d241, at 11:26 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 to.  Where is it getting SFr. ??
>>> 
>>> - Axel
>> 
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