> On 23 Aug 2019, at 23:10, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Axel Essbaum <a...@essbaum.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Longtime Mac GC user, still running my original 2.4.11 install from… 10 >> years ago? I am now looking at upgrading to 3.6 and am encountering a >> problem with the "grouping" character and decimal points being transposed. >> I am using GC with CHF (I am in Switzerland), but my computer is set up in >> English. >> >> In System Prefs > Langauge and Region I have Region = Switzerland. On that >> pane in Advanced I have Number Separator Grouping = ' and decimal = . >> Currency is CHF and Currency Grouping = ' and decimal = . >> >> In GC Prefs I have Locale = CHF (Swiss Franc). >> >> But two thousand CHF, which I would expect to see as CHF 2'000.00 is >> actually displayed SFr. 2.000,00. >> >> I can live with SFr. but I can't have a decimal point used for grouping. >> >> Anyone have any ideas what I can adjust to fix this? > > The problem is that while Apple's native localization (based on a library > called ICU) has the correct numeric and monetary formats for Switzerland, > their C runtime library localization files that GnuCash uses have the wrong > values for thousands separator and decimal point. > > MacOS won't let you edit the file even with admin privileges (i.e. sudo) and > AFAIK no other country uses an apostrophe for the thousands separator so I > don't think that there's any way to get the apostrophe thousands separator > short of switching to Linux. > > Since you're using GnuCash in English anyway you could just tell defaults > defaults write -a Gnucash AppleLocale en_GB.UTF-8 > and it will use comma for the thousands separator and dot for the decimal > point. You'll want to change the default currency in Preferences on the > Accounts and Reports tabs to CHF instead of locale.
Hi John, Thanks for the helpful response. I am happy with a comma separator. But I get: $ defaults write -a Gnucash AppleLocale en_GB.UTF-8 2019-08-24 06:54:51.749 defaults[13856:1130038] Unexpected argument en_GB.UTF-8; leaving defaults unchanged. This is Mojave, btw. Any idea what I need to do different? Thanks! - Axel a...@essbaum.com <mailto:a...@essbaum.com> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
