Yes David, I think we will do that eventually. But it won't make the cut for this release (v1.6.0)
Cheers, Ngewi On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Dave H <hell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ngewi, > > Can you provide a Preference for the Locale which would allow the user to > select either the Locale in use on the Phone (the default) or another > Locale of their choosing if they happen to be using a different Locale on > their PC - perhaps with an explanation that this affects only Scheduled > Txns ? > > Cheers Dave H. > > On 29 April 2015 at 23:03, Ngewi Fet <nge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Geert, >> Thanks for that info. That puts us in a tight spot. Now GncA could either: >> - skip scheduled transactions completely (not desirable) >> - parse the wrong amount and let the user edit it later (I am less >> inclined >> to do this) or >> - fail the import completely (which is what happens now and will make the >> import feature less-than-useful for many) . >> >> One solution that comes to mind though, if I could reliably know how many >> decimal places are included in the amount, then I can parse it >> irrespective >> of the separator. >> Does GnuCash always use 2 decimal places, or does this depend on the >> currency, or something else? >> >> But then that also leaves the issue of GnuCash choking on XML files >> exported by GncA because we cannot predict what locale the user will be >> using. >> Best guess will be to use the mobile device locale and hope that the user >> has the same setting on the desktop! >> >> Regards, >> Ngewi F. >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Geert Janssens < >> geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be >> > wrote: >> >> > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 11:35:42 Ngewi Fet wrote: >> > >> > > Hello, >> > >> > > In GnuCash XML, scheduled transaction splits do not have the >> > >> > > <split:value/> and <split:quantities/> set. Rather the amount is >> > >> > > stored as a slot with key <sched-xaction>. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > I would like to know if the formatting of this amount is (device or >> > >> > > gnucash) locale-specific, or uniform across all GnuCash instances. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > For me, it is formatted as , e.g. 200,00 or 2.500,00 >> > >> > > Note the comma for decimal separator and period for thousands >> > >> > > separator (which would be correct for my device locale but incorrect >> > >> > > for my GnuCash locale which is en_US). >> > >> > > The formatting doesn't seem to change when I modify the GnuCash >> > >> > > locale. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Can anyone shed some light on the formatting of the split amounts of >> > >> > > scheduled transactions? >> > >> > > It would help when parsing GnuCash XML files in GnuCash Android. >> > >> > > Thanks. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Regards, >> > >> > > Ngewi F. >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > > gnucash-devel mailing list >> > >> > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> > >> > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > >> > >> > >> > Hi Ngewi, >> > >> > >> > >> > Unfortunately you hit one of GnuCash's dark corners here. The SX amount >> > formula is stored in gnucash in the locale that is active at that time. >> > This has been a poor design decision (more like on oversight probably) >> at >> > the time. >> > >> > >> > >> > It gets worse if you change locales afterwards because gnucash doesn't >> > store the locale information itself with the formula and hence can't >> > convert the stored formulas to the new locale, resulting in errors when >> > these formulas have to be parsed. >> > >> > >> > >> > This has been reported as a bug [1] which hasn't been fixed yet so far. >> > >> > >> > >> > I'm not sure what you can do on the gnucash-on-android side to properly >> > handle this if gnucash itself even doesn't. >> > >> > >> > >> > Geert >> > >> > >> > >> > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370331 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
