Jan Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >What locale setting do you use?
> >Do you have a default currency set in Edit -> Preferences -> International?
>
> I don't have the machine I normally use available here, but my
> semi-educated guess would be that I use locale "C" and that I do not
> have a preference set (i.e probably defaulting to USD).
Based on this, your transactions will be in USD unless you use
the Transfer Dialog.
> However, I fail to see why the locale and/or preferences should
> interfer with the entry currency. I assumed that the reason an account
> has a currency is that all entries in that account are in that given
> currency, independently of whether I am in Taiwan or in Germany or
> elsewhere. In my case I have bank accounts in several currencies, and
> would normally enter transactions in the local currency for each
> account and expect the entry to follow the account (except, of course,
> through "inter currency" transfers (BTW, nice that the intermediate
> account for that is gone now).
This is a known bug (see bug #97690). Gnucash uses the Locale to
choose your "default currency" and _ALL_ transfers (out of the
register) are in this currency.
> All the best
>
> Jan
>
> P.S Sorry if you get this twice, but I sent the first from a
> non-subscribed mailing address.
-derek
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