> On Aug 23, 2019, at 9:59 PM, Axel Essbaum <a...@essbaum.com> wrote: > >> >> 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!
Sorry, the option is -app and you need to single-quote the locale: defaults write -app Gnucash AppleLocale 'en_GB.UTF-8' Sometimes the defaults system is persnickety and denies knowing about Gnucash: "Can't determine domain name for application Gnucash; defaults unchanged" in which case you can tell it the full path defaults write -app /Applications/Gnucash.app AppleLocale 'en_GB.UTF-8' Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
