Matthew Vanecek writes:
> Hi,
> 1.4.8 doesn't seem to like negative numbers. Two problems I'm having:
>
> 1) I created a new credit card account. The balance of course starts at
> zero and decreases from there. The first transaction I entered was a
> debit of $21. The reported balance appeared as 0.06. It should have
> showed (21.00). Further transactions display similar oddities. The
> balance in the main window seems to be correct. Just the Register is
> weird.
>
> 2) I went to reconcile one of my checking accounts. On paper it had a
> -1.84 ending balance. So I dutifully enter -1.84 as the ending balance,
> and tab on, and the figure is converted to (1.84). All seems well.
> When I click OK, and get to the reconcile window, the ending balance is
> incorrectly reported as 0.08. This caused my final balance to be off.
> No matter what I did, I could not get a negative ending balance to
> work. This is very disturbing, especially since I need to reconcile my
> credit card accounts, and all of those naturally have a negative
> balance. When I try to enter the negative ending balance, and tab out
> of the field, the amount is summarily converted to 0.
>
> What can I do to fix this? I didn't have this problem in previous
> versions. Should I downgrade to a previous version (the last one I used
> was Helix's release of it)?
>
> I'm currently using RH 7.0, and the GNUCash 1.4.8 RPM from gnucash.org.
You're running in the C locale, right? There is a bug with amount printing
and the C locale (exposed by RH 7.0 which has different defaults for the
C locale than previous RH versions). Short term fix: switch to another
locale, i.e., LANG=en_US gnucash, as appropriate.
The next stable version will fix this problem.
dave
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