[GNC] Input validation issue on investment accounts when changing number format.

[David H]

You don't have decimal places set to zero or perhaps smallest fraction set
to 1 for that account ?

Cheers David H.

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 at 12:13, S. John Banner via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I recently moved countries from the Netherlands (which uses a number
> format like "1.234,56") to Portugal (which uses a number format like
> "1,234.56"), and for completeness, at the same time I moved from a Windows
> PC to a Mac M1. Everything seems to have moved over just fine, I can use
> the Portuguese number convention everywhere, except that when I try to
> buy/sell shares from my investment account, I can't enter a fractional
> amount of shares - well, not simply. The input field insists that I use a
> "," for the decimal separator, then strips it out because the system
> decimal separator is a "." giving a large whole number of shares rather
> than a smaller fractional number. Everything displays correctly, except
> while I am editing a number in that specific column (in all the accounts I
> have tried).
> I can actually work around this, by entering something like "1234/1000"
> when I want "1.234", and that works correctly, but it's a silly way to have
> to do the entry.
>
> I did try "fix accounts", on the off chance that might help, but no
> difference.
>
> This is using Build ID: 4.13+(2022-12-17) on my new Mac M1. If someone
> knows how to fix this, that would be great, but I expect it will have to
> wait for a bug fix.
>
> sjb.
>
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