Yes, if you change your locale back to the old locale it should work again.
-derek On Wed, December 13, 2017 1:34 pm, Pam Dooner wrote: > 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 >> > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ 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.