[GNC] currency symbol problem in reports

[Gio Bacareza]

Thanks John. I did try those settings, first to P. Then I realized null
would be better but it defaulted back. So a space is a solution. I didn't
think of that. Thanks much for your help

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 9:32 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Not in settings, in the security editor. Open the Currencies namespace,
> find and select the currency, and select Edit. There's a spot for Display
> Symbol. Deleting it will get the default but a space will replace it. That
> might make amounts look odd in some places but should be OK on most.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Feb 27, 2021, at 1:37 PM, D. via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > ISTR that there is a place in the settings to choose the character to
> display with each currency. Never tried it though.
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Gio Bacareza <gbacareza at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sat Feb 27 09:18:47 EST 2021
> > To: Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com>
> > Cc: GnuCash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] currency symbol problem in reports
> >
> > I use Arial which should have it. But for some reason Gnucash does not
> > render it.
> >
> > If you copy paste the report to another program like a text editor or
> > excel, the peso sign shows up.
> >
> > But to be honest I really just want to eliminate currency symbols. I
> mostly
> > work in pesos so there is no added information it gives me.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure such that no currency symbol is displayed or
> > printed?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 4:32 PM Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2021-02-26 17:21, Gio Bacareza wrote:
> >>
> >>> This seems to be a nagging problem with currencies in reports. I
> thought
> >> I
> >>> had solved this in previous versions of mac that I'm using but it's
> back
> >>> again with Big Sur and the remedies that worked before no longer works
> >> now.
> >>>
> >>> My currency is Philippine Peso. Reports show a square looking symbol
> >> which
> >>> could probably mean it could not find the right font.
> >>
> >> According to Wikipedia, the Philippine Peso symbol is "₱". It looks like
> >> a capital "P" with two horizontal lines through the upper bowl. The
> >> Unicode code point is U+20B1.
> >>
> >> What font are you using to format the report? I suspect that not all
> >> fonts contain this character. On my Mac, the main system fonts like
> >> Arial and Courier have it, the pan-Unicode fonts like Noto Sans have it,
> >> but more specialised text fonts like Calibri do not.
> >>
> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_peso_sign
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >>      —Jim DeLaHunt
> >>
> >>
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> > cheers,
> >
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