[GNC] "?" symbol pre fixed with all balances in my account balances

Keshava M P keshava.mp at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 04:30:50 EST 2020


Dear Adrian,

Many thanks for your reply and patience. Now the problem is different.
Everything worked as described. Rupees symbol replaced question mark in the
security editor dialog box. However, when I click on "OK" button in the
dialog box, it doesn't save the symbol and in the list of currencies,
against INR, still the question mark remains!

Regards,
Keshava


On Fri, 3 Jan, 2020, 2:14 am Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user, <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Keshava,
>
> Read the Wikipedia article I linked. It takes you directly to the section
> on entering Unicode characters in X11 apps. You have to use the X11
> CTRL+SHIFT+U key combo procedure, the Windows combo of CTRL+ALT will *not*
> work. Note, there are *two* methods in X11, the first you hold the combo
> down while typing the code, the second, you release the combo first then
> type the code, then hit ENTER. There is also a variation of that second
> method. Read over that Wikipedia entry carefully and try them all till you
> get one that works for you.
>
> As for customizing the currency symbol:
>
> 1. Open Tools > Security Editor
> 2. Make sure ’Show National Currencies’ is checked at the bottom left
> 3. Expand the currency list
> 4. Find your currency
> 5. See if the symbol shows correctly
> 6. If not, with that currency selected, click the Edit button
> 7. Type, or copy/paste your desired symbol in the Display symbol field and
> click the OK button
>
> Note, when I look at my currency list, I see symbols for all currencies
> that have them defined. (some have letter abbreviations) Of those that have
> symbols (many in foreign character sets to mine) I see symbols for all of
> them, not one is replaced by a question mark. In particular Indian Rupee
> has the proper symbol for me. The other countries which use Rupees all seem
> to be set to ₨. (or SR in the case of the Seychelles)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jan 2, 2020 w1d2, at 11:12 AM, Keshava M P <keshava.mp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you very much, Adrien.
> > In a separate  thread, I saw creating gtk-3.0.css  and it worked and
> changed the fonts also. But when I try entering ₹ symbol (Here, I typed
> this with the combination CTRL+ALT+4 with keyboard as English (India) on
> Windows 10), I am simply not able to do it.
> >
> > Firstly, CTRL+ALT+4 does not work in currency edit window.
> > Secondly, if I copy "₹" symbol from a word document and paste, after
> clicking OK, it is back to "?" symbol.
> > In your mail, you had said "It is possible to customize the unicode
> glyph". Any idea about how to do that?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Regards,
> > Keshava
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 22:35, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > I’m not versed on settings.ini syntax, but you might need to quote the
> font name so it doesn’t see it as 2 fonts. ("Calibre 14" instead of
> “Calibre" and “14")
> >
> > Also, check your currency list in GnuCash and the assigned symbol for
> Rupee there. It is possible to customize the unicode glyph. The wrong one
> might be assigned. Finally, you also might find it easier to either change
> your Windows locale currency (if that works for you) to Rupee, or else try
> to assign a 4th or 5th level keyboard key to the Rupee so you can type it
> without needing the ALT+x method. (you would use the ALT key with some
> other like CTRL in a combo)
> >
> > Finally, GnuCash uses GTK+ and not the Windows UI directly. GTK+ does
> not support the ALT+x input method. (which is Windows specific) It does
> support entering Unicode hex codes though. See this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#In_X11_(Linux_and_Unix_variants)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > > On Dec 13, 2019 w50d347, at 4:56 AM, Keshava M P <keshava.mp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I tried the same.
> > > First I ran a query in Google "fonts that support Rupee symbol".  Got
> > > confirmation that now windows came with support for Rupee symbol and we
> > > could directly type rupee in applications like say Word - by typing
> 20b9
> > > followed by Alt+x. So, by this logic, I thought if I change in
> settings.ini
> > > (gnucash on windows 10), this problem would be solved. Here is my
> > > settings.ini:
> > >
> > > [Settings]
> > > gtk-xft-antialias=1
> > > gtk-xft-hinting=1
> > > gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
> > > gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
> > > #introduced by MPK for rupee symbol
> > > gtk-font-name=Calibri 14
> > >
> > >
> > > But still, no luck. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > > Regards,
> > > Keshava
>
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