Hrmpf. We get this bug report over and over again. The "default 
currency" in the preferences refers to the default currency for a 
new account, not for a report. The report's currency follows the 
current locale. This was bug#87729 and IMHO the conclusion was that 
we're going to leave it as it is. Maybe we should make the "default 
currency" option a bit more clear.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87729 ***

I desagree STRONGLY with this feature and this conclusion.

If you have an option "default currency", why not use it for reports,
and use another setting? If the user ask for the default currency
of accounts to be EUR, I guess he wants the currency of reports to
be also in EUR. Trust me on that;-)

Every stupid user as your servitor would expect this simple behavior.

The identification of the default currency and the locale seems 
also highly inappropriate. The locale is really a cultural
aspect, your native tongue, how you expect to see dates and so.
The default currency depends on the money of the country where
you leave. It may be not the same... many people leave abroad.

On the other hand, although I'm French I keep a "C" locale because
for most programs translation are often poor. For instance, it
is quite impossible to understand computer error messages in French
for me.

So if I want a locale that would leave the English language
and use EUR, I have to use the code for "Eire" (en_IE), beacause it
is the only English speaking country that uses EUR. OR I have
to define some sub environment variable LC_CURRENCY and hope?

Well, it would be much simpler to have the option to work as every
body expects;-)

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