[GNC] Wrong numeric separators in new file

[Tony Vanson]

Thank you all - fixed.
In Windows 10 Region/Additional Settings/Customise Format did the trick.
Beats me why the format was changed in the first place - but that is
Windows for ya' :-)
Cheers

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:08 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> That's for accounts, e.g. Assets:Current:Bank of America:Checking.
>
> Tony is asking about ',' and '.' to separate parts of a number. That's
> driven by locale settings, so have a look at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings. Remember that GnuCash is
> *not* a native Windows app and doesn't understand custom settings in Region
> & Language.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Feb 28, 2021, at 7:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > Preferences > Accounts > Separator Character
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > On 2/28/21 9:11 PM, Tony Vanson wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> On Windows 10 and Gnucash 4.4
> >> After a catastrophic failure of my laptop, which also took out my
> external
> >> backup drive, I found a 2 year old backup on another drive.
> >> The data loss is not a huge problem as it is solely for my own use.
> >> I closed that old file and used it to create a new file hierarchy with
> >> every account in the new file showing zero - all good.
> >> However I notice when entering amounts now that the thousands separator
> is
> >> a decimal point and the decimal point is a comma e.g. $10.000.000,00.
> >> I've dug around some but haven't been able to find where I can change
> the
> >> separators.
> >> Any advice is much appreciated
> >> Cheers
> >
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