It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:40:22 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Per Bojsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > What is GnuCash' default currency? How is it set? Is this part of
> > your solution described or is there already a default currency?
>
> This is a highly relevant question, as it should be populated, by
> default, into new accounts that get created. (*Particularly* those
> created automatically, but that's another agenda item...)
>
> - Is there some equivalent to an "environment variable" that contains
> this?
Not yet.
> - Is this something that can/should be set in a ~/.gnucash
> configuration file?
Yes.
There is another problem that I couldn't find my way out of. Currently,
the 'currency' is a string, which the user can set to any value.
Although I recommend the use of three-letter ISO currency names, I didn't
want to enforce this because it can also hold stock-ticker symbols
(e.g. three-letter NYSE variety, five-letter nasdaq variety, other ...)
i.e. the vision for the currency trading account was that it was a lot
like a stock trading account, except that instead of a ticker symbol
it would hold a three-letter iso currency abbreviation.
How should this be handled? Another 'bug' is that its case-sensitive,
so USD and usd are not the same thing, and this can lead to confusion ...
Maybe I should just force the use of iso names in the GUI, and live with
whatever loss of flexibility this causes ...
--linas
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