On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 02:09, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > Yes, it's completely safe on Linux and macOS and mostly safe on MSWindows. > Just make sure that the characters are encoded in UTF-8. Web pages > generally are, but other Windows applications use UTF-16 and pasting into > GnuCash will not produce the desiredresult. Windows CMD and Powershell are > pretty firmly stuck in the 1990s and unless you perform some special > contortions encode non-ASCII characters using DOS code-pages. Don't try to > paste from them into GnuCash. >
I'm unlikely to know how a particular web server is configured. But I'll probably be doing most of this on Linux anyway. GnuCash fully supports Unicode via UTF-8 and we have lots of users around > the world who use a variety of writing systems. > Okay, I will leave the Greek characters when I see them. It looks a bit nicer if I send a customer an invoice with the Greek omega symbol, rather than write ohm. (The electrical resistance of something is expressed in ohms, and denoted by a lowercase omega.) Regards, > John Ralls > Dave _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.