Thank you for this explanation. If I change my locale to UK, will everything then be OK? Otherwise how do I change the SX definitions? Regards, Pam
*Pam Dooner* On 13 December 2017 at 16:30, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Pam Dooner <pamdoo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > yes, definitely 2.6.18. Just tried again and this time managed to get a > > pop-up saying "An error occurred while processing 0.99" > > I am trying to change all my decimal points to commas to coincide with > the > > euro locale that I have to use now it seems. In the older versions, there > > was no issue with commas and points. I have UK accounts and european > > accounts so ought to be able to use both but this version (and the > previous > > one) seem to cause the error if I try to use a decimal point. So I'll > have > > to try to edit the file elsewhere and re-import it. I had hoped there > might > > have been a way of globally changing all previous entries with a decimal > > point to commas. In the actual accounts, it has changed them all to > commas > > but not in scheduled transactions! > > Pam > > Scheduled Transactions do not survive a locale change, specifically a > change where the decimal separator changes characters. The reason is > that the SX data is stored as text, not as a numeric, so "99/100" gets > stored as 0.99 and then it expects to be parsed as 0.99 -- however if > you change your locale so that a comma is a decimal separator then > GnuCash expects to read back 0,99. But when it sees 0.99 it doesn't > know how to interpret that. > > The only fix is to change the SX definitions, or to change your locale > specification of (IIRC) LC_NUMERIC back to the old style. > > I don't know if there is a way change the character from within the > program. > > > *Pam Dooner* > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warl...@mit.edu PGP key available > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.