[GNC] Fixed decimal separator on MacOS Big Sur 11.4

[Yves Forget]

Hello,

I’m using GnuCash on MacOS with language/region set to French Canada.

I had a problem with the decimal separator in GnuCash since updating from MacOS 10.13 to 10.14 .  I upgraded to Big Sur (11.4) in the last few days, and the problem persisted.

In went into my installed Gnucash.app, in Contents/Resources, and noticed there was no french resources, even if the application is in french on my Mac (french menus, buttons, etc).  I just created an empty fr.lproj folder, restarted the application, and my decimal separator is now the comma, the default value for french Canada.  The fix may also work on other MacOS versions between 10.14 and 11.4 .

Duplicating the en.lproj folder and renaming the copy to fr.lproj would make GnuCash bring the English manuals when accessing the Help/Tutorial and Concepts Guide menu.  It’s probably better than an empty fr.lproj folder where the Tutorial menu would bring nothing.

> Le 24 mai 2021 à 22:41, Yves Forget <yves_forget at yahoo.ca> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded from MacOS 10.13 High Sierra to 10.14.6 Mojave.
> 
> Since upgrade, GnuCash uses the period instead of comma as decimal separator.
> 
> All existing transactions are shown with the wrong separator (123.45 instead of 123,45) and when entering new transactions I need to use the period as decimal separator.  Also, I get an error when GnuCash tries to apply a scheduled transaction (since scheduled transactions were created with comma as decimal separator)
> 
> I checked settings in GnuCash : Preferences/Account/Default Currency shows Canadian Dollars.
> 
> The settings in MacOS seems to be correct also : System Preferences/Language and Region is set to Canada and the money example is 4 567,89 .  Clicking Advanced, the decimal separator for both numbers and money is set to comma (default value for Canada).
> 
> Other software (OpenOffice) uses the comma as expected.
> 
> Any hints ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yves Forget
>