[GNC] Issue posting vendor bill with non-US dollar book

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Fri Sep 25 00:50:30 EDT 2026


That is indeed interesting.

Maybe something is amiss with the Debian/Ubuntu build(s)?

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/24/26 4:05 PM, Liz wrote:

> I present the case of Laptops A and B
> Both Laptops are running Debian, and at install set to Australia/NSW.
> https://imgur.com/a/Tpe6qSU
> 
> Laptop A was in regular use until I broke the screen (screenshots don't
> show the duct tape over the corner).
> Laptop B was purchased 5 Aug 23. The version of Gnucash installed
> initially would have come from Debian testing shortly after that.
> My Gnucash files were copied over when I copied my entire ~/ (home
> partition) to the new laptop.
> 
> Gnucash on Laptop B tells me that the locale is US. I had to set the
> preferences after I was unable to post an invoice earlier this year.
> 
> I am considering a possibility that there is/was a bug which reads the
> locale wrongly, and I struck that earlier this year.



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