About GnuCash

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-01-04, Bill Marcum <marcumbill at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>>    I have installed Gnucash on Ubuntu (Dapper) and it seems its working
>> fine. One problem is that the currency is not showing up. A couple of
>> question marks  are turning up there. Is this coz of some different charset
>> or coz of some font problems. I have tried gnucash on Fedora core 4 and its
>> perfectly working. Any inputs about this is welcome.

I used to launch it from xterm using the following alias

  alias gnucash='LANG=en_GB.iso885915  gnucash'

in my ~/.bashrc file.


> The version of gnucash in Dapper is 1.8.12, which cannot handle utf-8 
> characters.  Start it with "LANG=en_US.iso-8859-1 gnucash" (or if you 
> are not in the US, use an appropriate locale).  I think Edgy has gnucash 
> 2.0, or if you are feeling brave you can try downloading the source code 
> from gnucash.org.

I can confirm Edgy has gnucash 2.0.1 which handles UTF-8.