On Tuesday 20 May 2014 10:02:37 John Ralls wrote: > On 20 May 2014, at 07:54, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote: > >> On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood <cl...@screwtape.co.uk> wrote: > >>> Hi David, > >>> > >>> Thanks for the reply. I'd heard that before, and I didn't expect > >>> to > >>> be able to use the export, but the accompanying report with the > >>> tax > >>> form lines accumulating related accounts, rather than having to > >>> use > >>> a spreadsheet each year and remember which accounts added up to > >>> what. > >>> > >>> There is code in the GnuCash release for a German localisation of > >>> the report, so I naively assumed I could create a GB localisation > >>> too. However, it is ignoring my localisation attempt. > >>> > >>> I've created -en_GB versions of all the files localised as -de_DE > >>> and it just loads the us version. > >>> > >>> I'd be surprised if a stable release of gnucash ships with code > >>> that > >>> isn't usable so I'm just trying to figure out why my localisation > >>> for en_GB is ignored. > > > > Unfortunately the locale specific tax reports we added via a hack. > > And the code that should load these reports explicitly checks if > > the locale is de_DE. If not it will go for the US tax report. This > > filtering is done in src/tax/us/gncmod-tax-us.c if I remember > > correctly. > > > > You may be able to fix this by special casing en_GB as well, though > > I'd rather see this mess cleaned up properly by storing locale > > dependent tax related stuff in separate directories/files per > > locale/country and load the relevant bits whenever the right locale > > is active. > > > > That may be more than you intended to do here though :( > > If there isn't already a bug report documenting that hack, there > should be. That's a pretty bad wart. > I wasn't involved in this set up but I vaguely remember the mailing list discussion.
The problem for doing it properly then was that tax reports are country dependent but GnuCash doesn't have a country selection mechanism. But GnuCash only works on the locale level, for example to list which account hierarchies to offer when setting up a new book. Since changing this was out of scope/capabilities of the original author of the tax report it was added via a hack instead. The reasoning behind that probably being that it was better to have the report included via a hack than not at all. I searched bugzilla but didn't find a bug report for this wart so I have added one: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730470 Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
