I am running gnucash from a UTF-8 locale since quite a while, it is possible, if you know how: 1.) you have to change the encoding of your account files by doing this strange procedure (if I remember correctly) because encoding of the xml file is completely broken: recode XML..LATIN1 accounts recode previous_encoding..UTF8 accounts recode LATIN1..XML accounts 2.) Then you have to force the font in the register window to use a unicode charset (iso10646-1). I don't remember, but I think I have put it by hand into the config-1.8.auto, because the preference window wouldn't let me set the charset. And the default value is set to Helvetica, which on my system doesn't even have a unicode charset. The above steps are necessary whenever you change your locale settings (the LANG environment variable). I had tried to fix the xml problem which I thought was easy to fix, but failed to make libxml1 work correctly. And I couldn't make gnucash run with libxml2 because of my limited knowledge of C. The above problems will probably go away with the gnome2 port, but we could maybe add the above steps to documentation. If you tell me where I shall put it, I would send you a patch to the documentation. It might take a week or so, though. Reinke On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:54:27 -0300 Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > Define "acceptable"? :) > > Would be "commit"ed into the 1.8 branch if it worked. > > > It's a gross hack, but there is a problem and this is a reasonable > > workaround on our part (as we know that *UTF-8 lang settings just > > dont work for us at all. I would say: see if you can do it and > > submit a patch. :) > > That is all I wanted to hear. Thanks. > > -- > -**-*-*---*-*---*-*---*-----*-*-----*---*-*---*-----*-----*-*-----*--- > Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > Work: Extracta Mol__culas Naturais SA http://www.extracta.com.br/ > Web: http://www.jandr.org/ > ***-*--*----*-------*------------*--------------------*--------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
