[GNC] Adding a new currency

Esteban Maringolo emaringolo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 08:52:58 EDT 2022


But is the list of currencies hardcoded? Isn't it in some table?

As for cryptocurrencies, there was XBT for Bitcoin, but nothing else.

Regards,

Esteban A. Maringolo

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 9:43 AM Geert Janssens
<geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>
> Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 10:18:51 CEST schreef Peter West:
> > So cryptocurrencies will never be supported currencies, because
> > cryptocurrencies will never be part of ISO-4217.
> >
>
> At some point I proposed to add code to allow non-ISO-4217 currencies. While not formally
> correct this could be helpful for simple personal accounting. Such alternate currency group
> could also have been used to manage crypto currencies.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have time left to implement this and I don't think any of the other
> active devs has it anywhere on their priority list.
>
> So "never" ? Depends. For to to have any chance though it will require someone to step up
> and implement this in a way that fits the gnucash design and concepts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> > —
> > Peter West
> > pbw at pbw.id.au
> > “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against
> > that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
> > > On 8 Jul 2022, at 2:51 am, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > >> On Jul 7, 2022, at 9:23 AM, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Is it possible to manually add a new currency to the list of currencies?
> > >>
> > >> I will take care of updating the exchange rate.
> > >
> > > No. Currency in GnuCash is defined as "currencies recognized by ISO-4217".
> > > Everything else is a commodity.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > John Ralls
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