Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-22 Thread John Ralls
On 22 May 2014, at 07:26, Herbert Thoma wrote: > Am 22.05.2014 16:11, schrieb Derek Atkins: >> Clint Redwood writes: >> >>> Hi Derek, >>> >>> Good point - but what would your localisation setup be in that case? Ideally >>> you'd want en_DE, which I presume doesn't usually exist? >> >> I have

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-22 Thread Herbert Thoma
Am 22.05.2014 16:11, schrieb Derek Atkins: Clint Redwood writes: Hi Derek, Good point - but what would your localisation setup be in that case? Ideally you'd want en_DE, which I presume doesn't usually exist? I have no idea what locale I would want. Most likely I'd have to use en_UK becaus

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-22 Thread Derek Atkins
Clint Redwood writes: > Hi Derek, > > Good point - but what would your localisation setup be in that case? Ideally > you'd want en_DE, which I presume doesn't usually exist? I have no idea what locale I would want. Most likely I'd have to use en_UK because, as you suggest, en_DE probably doesn'

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-22 Thread John Ralls
On 22 May 2014, at 02:08, Clint Redwood wrote: > Hi Derek, > > > Good point - but what would your localisation setup be in that case? Ideally > you'd want en_DE, which I presume doesn't usually exist? It doesn't, and libc's setlocale() complains and sets the 'C' locale if you try to use it

RE: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-22 Thread Clint Redwood
Hi Derek,   Good point - but what would your localisation setup be in that case? Ideally you'd want en_DE, which I presume doesn't usually exist?   You could set the tax jurisdition as a separate core option, or I guess you could base it on the default report currency for the instance.   This

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-21 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: >> 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

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 14:22:19 John Ralls wrote: > On May 20, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 10:02:37 John Ralls wrote: > >> On 20 May 2014, at 07:54, Geert Janssens > >> > > > > wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote: > On 19 May

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread John Ralls
On May 20, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 10:02:37 John Ralls wrote: >> On 20 May 2014, at 07:54, Geert Janssens > wrote: >>> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote: On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood > wrote: > Hi David, >

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 10:02:37 John Ralls wrote: > On 20 May 2014, at 07:54, Geert Janssens wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote: > >> On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood wrote: > >>> Hi David, > >>> > >>> Thanks for the reply. I'd heard that before, and I didn't ex

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 19:54:02 Clint Redwood wrote: > Hi Geert, > > > Thanks for your detailed reply. I've hacked the us report in order to > do what I need in the short term, and will fix the localisations for > it going forward. It seems that the whole process may not work quite > as I'd hope

RE: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread Clint Redwood
Hi Geert,   Thanks for your detailed reply. I've hacked the us report in order to do what I need in the short term, and will fix the localisations for it going forward. It seems that the whole process may not work quite as I'd hoped anyway, as I suspect I need to be able to associate a single a

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread John Ralls
On 20 May 2014, at 07:54, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote: >> On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood 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 re

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread Derek Atkins
Clint, Clint Redwood writes: > 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 whic

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote: > On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood 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

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-20 Thread John Ralls
On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood 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 >

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-19 Thread Clint Redwood
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 c

Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

2014-05-19 Thread David T.
Clint, That is not a stupid question. The txf format was developed by Intuit for users of its financial and tax prep software in the U.S. Intuit’s specs for the format make it clear (by omission) that the format as defined is really just for U.S. tax purposes. GnuCash’s TXF options have been m