Re: Locale requirements for GnuCash
On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:40, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> David Goodenough (<david.goodenough@btconnect.com>) wrote:
> > I am trying to run GnuCash, and it keeps complaining when I start it
> >
> > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >
> > I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales and selected en_GB and en_GB.utf8
> > but I still get the error message.
> >
> > The only effect of this error seems to be that GnuCash does not
> > know that the currency symbol should be £ and uses the letters
> > GBP instead which is fine, but makes invoices look a bit odd.
> >
> > Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Just a guess: did you log out and in again after changing the locale
> settings?
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
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> Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
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Yes I logged out, turned out that I needed to export LANG=en_GB
before it would work. So I have written a little wrapper script to
do this and then invoke gnucash.
David
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