> > It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > What locale are you using? What is the value of the following
> > > > > environment variables:
> > > > > 
> > > > > LANG
> > > > > LC_ALL
> > > > > LC_MONETARY
> > > 
> > > What kind of system are you running gnucash on? What version
> > > are you using for:
> > > 
> > > c libraries
> > > gtk+
> > > gnome-libs
> > 
> > Maybe we should have a commandline flag, e.g.
> > gnucash --config
> > 
> > that will echo the locale vars, and maybe do a quick 
> > 'ldd gnucash.gnome', or some other handy iagnostic info?
> 
> We could go ahead and print that info out when debug
> mode is set.
> 
> Also, one thing we could do that would have solved Graham's
> problem is set a default locale if none has been set, say
> 'en_US'.

The more I think about it, the more this seems like a bug
in the C libraries on Yellowdog Linux (Graham's distro).
When you don't have the LANG variable set, you are implicitly
using the C locale, which should still have reasonable values
for things like the number of fractional digits.

dave

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