Bug 721322 – Chinese currency display symbol in e.g. HK undesired if LANG=C

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Bug 721322 - Chinese currency display symbol in e.g. HK undesired if LANG=C


Summary:	Chinese currency display symbol in e.g. HK undesired if LANG=C


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 727466

Product:	GnuCash
Classification:	Other
Component:	Currency and Commodity
Version:	2.6.0
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnucash-core-maint
QA Contact:	gnucash-core-maint

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Depends on:
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Reported:	2014-01-02 03:43 UTC by Leo
Modified:	2018-06-29 23:23 UTC

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Attachments
testcase (3.30 KB, application/x-gnucash) 2014-01-02 03:43 UTC, Leo	Details
screenshot (78.79 KB, image/png) 2014-01-02 03:44 UTC, Leo	Details

Description Leo 2014-01-02 03:43:39 UTC

Created attachment 265119 [details]
testcase

Step to reproduce
1. Destktop language us english, gnucash default concurrency is hkd, 
2. Create a account with CNY, 

Outcome:
  The display becomes a Chinese chacracter as shown in the attachment.
  The correct display should be in English "CNY" because we are in English interface.

Comment 1 Leo 2014-01-02 03:44:15 UTC

Created attachment 265120 [details]
screenshot

Comment 2 Frank H. Ellenberger 2014-01-07 00:23:01 UTC

Hm, that is a difficult case.

We added in 2.5 a new field to the currencies: local-symbol
because some people disliked the ISO codes for foreign currencies.

The bad news: It is not translatable, but
the good news: you can edit it in Tools->Security editor
 checkmark Show national currencies,
 open the CURRENCY tree
 search CNY and click edit
 replace Display Symbol with your desired text
 and confim it by clicking OK

[DEVS: before closing this bug, we should add above section or similar to the docs before 
<sect2 id="currency_acct_user2"> in ch_currency.xml of the guide]

I hope we did not confuse you too much.

But in theory the 元 symbol is right for CNY?

Just for curiosity: why do you have so complex settings?
Is it HK specific? Can we make it somehow simpler?

Comment 3 Frank H. Ellenberger 2014-04-16 20:33:35 UTC

BTW: LANG=C is the wrong way, if you only wish to switch the language. You should use e.g. LANGUAGE=en. LANG will also change the numeric, monetary and date format.

We got a similar report (Bug 727466 - The symbol of CNY changed to 元) from CN. See my comments there, too.

I don't know enough about Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China. Are there other changes relevant to gnucash?

Comment 4 Geert Janssens 2015-02-07 16:27:21 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727466 ***

Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:23:16 UTC

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