I think I've fixed this by changing the Windows currency symbol (and a bunch of other localization strings) as UTF16 and converting them to UTF8. This bypasses the whole codepage problem.
The fix will be in Tomorrow's nightly build at https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable. It should be ready sometime around 2026-09-30 08:00 UTC and will be named something like gnucash-5.17-2026-09-29-git-5.17-2-g56ccad9a66+.setup.exe. Please install and test. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 29, 2026, at 2:23 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has been reported as https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799821. > You need a Bugzilla account to view it. The problem is due to a change in > Windows character set handling in order to accommodate installation paths > with non-ASCII characters. I’m working on a fix. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > >> On Sep 29, 2026, at 5:34 AM, mlmki <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> *Version / platform:* GnuCash 5.17 (updated from 5.16 on 2026-09-28), >> Windows 11 Pro, German locale (de-DE) >> >> *Description:* >> Since updating from 5.16 to 5.17, the euro sign (€) is displayed >> incorrectly. Instead of "€", three separate characters are shown: "â", a >> control character (U+0082, rendered as a hex box) and "¬". These are the >> UTF-8 bytes of € (E2 82 AC) interpreted as Latin-1/Windows-1252. Example in >> the account tree: "0,00 â¬" instead of "0,00 €". >> >> *Where it occurs:* >> >> * Account tree (all balance columns) >> * Currency list (Tools → Security Editor, "Show currencies" enabled): >> the symbol for EUR is wrong, while other currencies with special >> characters (e.g. FK£) are displayed correctly >> * Not affected: the euro sign is displayed correctly when entering text >> >> *Settings:* >> Default currency preference is set to EUR. >> >> *Already tried (no effect):* >> >> * Creating a brand-new empty book: the same wrong symbol appears, so >> this is not caused by the data file or user data >> >> *Expected behavior:* >> "€" is displayed correctly everywhere, as in 5.16. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
