Yves, And just for completeness I added a line to read NSLocaleDecimalSeparator and then examined it in the debugger. It's '.', consistent with the locale being en_CA instead of fr_CA.
Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 2, 2018, at 7:57 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > Yves, > > No, unfortunately querying NSLocaleDecimalSeparator and friends won’t help. > GnuCash depends at least partly on libc functions like printf (and their C++ > equivalents) for formatting, and those functions in turn depend on a locale > being set in the environment. They use that locale to retrieve information > like decimal separator from the files in /usr/share/locale. In the case at > hand, LC_MONETARY. The fact that NSLocaleLanguageCode returns en_CA instead > of fr_CA causes the wrong LC_MONETARY to be consulted. > > Given that GnuCash needs to work on Windows and other Unixes besides MacOS, > the only alternative that I know of is ICU. WebKit uses it so it’s already a > dependency but it would be a lot of work to convert; the API would need to be > made available to Scheme as well for the reports because Guile also uses libc > localization. It’s likely a multi-year project for a single programmer. > (Well, multi-month at 40 hours/week.) Wanna volunteer? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > >> On Jul 2, 2018, at 7:36 PM, Yves Forget <yves_for...@yahoo.ca> wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> Running from the terminal I still get period. In the terminal I got the >> following trace. >> >> (process:1976): gnc.gui-WARNING **: 18:35:55.003: [mac_set_languages()] >> Language list: en:fr_CA:en_CA:C >> >> I just downloaded the sources from GitHub, and looked at >> [mac_set_languages()]. Foundation offers global variables >> NsLocaleDecimalSeparator, NSLocaleGroupingSeparator and >> NSLocaleCurrencySymbol, among others. These variables would bring directly >> the values mac_set_languages() is trying to get. Furthermore, if a user >> changes the decimal separator in the Advanced panel of the Language and >> Region system preferences, gnu cash would get the expected separator instead >> of the locale’s default separator. Is it something that could be changed >> without breaking a lot of things in the app ? >> >> Please don’t hesitate to tell me if I’m completely wrong… >> >> Thanks, >> >> Yves >> >>> Le 2 juill. 2018 à 18:43, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >>> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> a écrit : >>> >>> I tested this a bit in the debugger and I with French as the primary >>> language and Canada as the country [currentlocale objectForKey: >>> NSLocaleLanguageCode] insists that the code in en, not French. If I tell >>> System Prefs I'm in France it gets the right answer, so it might be an >>> Apple bug. >>> >>> Unfortunately setting LANG in the environment, though it will set the >>> interface language, doesn't seem to change the number display, so there >>> doesn't seem to be a way to force it at present. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> >>>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 2:59 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >>>> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >>>> >>>> If you run GnuCash from a Terminal prompt do you get the right separator? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>>> >>>>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 1:42 PM, Yves Forget via gnucash-user >>>>> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> System Preferences/Language and Region says Region = Canada and language >>>>> = french. Advanced shows decimal separator is comma and thousands >>>>> separator is space. (These are default values for French Canada). >>>>> Environment variable LANG=fr_CA.UTF_8 >>>>> OpenOffice correctly uses comma as decimal separator. >>>>> Is Gnucash supposed to use the parameters from the locale ? Is there a >>>>> way to force it ? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Yves Forget >>>>> >>>>> Le lundi 2 juillet 2018 15h48, R. Victor Klassen <rvklas...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:rvklas...@gmail.com>> a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Maybe in Quebec it is a comma. In the rest of the country it is a >>>>> period. >>>>> >>>>> There should be a different locale for fr-canada than for en-canada. I >>>>> don’t know what else would differ across locales though. >>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 3:42 PM, Yves Forget via gnucash-user >>>>>> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I’m new to GnuCash and just installed GnuCash 3.2 on Mac. OS X 10.13 >>>>>> Gnucash uses the period as decimal separator instead of my locale’s >>>>>> separator. Here in Canada it should be comma. >>>>>> Should Gnucash use the decimal separator of my locale, or is it always >>>>>> period ? 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