GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 727466
The symbol of CNY changed to 元
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:29:10 UTC
When I've updated to the newest version 2.6.3. The symbol of CNY changed from "CNY" to "元", So Before: CNY 12,345.67 Now(2.6.3): 元 12,345.67 Correct: ¥ 12,345.67 Which is really ugly and not acceptable. No one use this in china actually. Using CNY is OK, the correct symbol is ¥, like Japanese. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi
Basicly this issue is a follow up of bug 723145 - Currency display does not respect locale. If that gets fixed the local monetary symbol of your operating system will be used. Can you tell me, what you see in other applications? Until we get there, you can adjust the symbol: Tools->Security Editor Checkmark "Show National Currencies" Select CNY from the list Edit Display Symbol replace it by ¥ or remove it, to get CNY. While http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi has ¥ as symbol, it has subunit 1 yuán (元,圆), too. Either the page was changed or I coped the wrong row. After 723145 is fixed, the 元 symbol will only appear if you run gnucash with other locale settings than *_CN. So we would have a differentiation between JP¥ (¥) and CN¥ (元). Is that acceptable? Otherwise we would have to use the longer forms.
元 is even not suitable for locale *_CN too, just because no one use this in china and really hard to read. It looks like this for US : "Dollar 987.65" instead of "US$ 987.65" or "USD 987.65" So, simply use CN¥ or CNY for all locale is OK. As I'm a native Chinese speaker, the best one for zh_CN locale is "¥ 987.65"
*** Bug 721322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thank you for your feedback. Based on it I have changed the currency symbol to use for Yuan to CN¥ in case Yuan is not the default locale currency. At the same time I had to change the non-default currency symbol for the Japanese Yen to JP¥. If Yuan your default locale's currency ¥ will be used instead. These corrections will appear in gnucash 2.6.6.
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