5.17 had this problem with the £ symbol. Seems to be fixed in Build ID:
git 5.17-2-g56ccad9a66+(2026-09-29)
Wm
On 2026-09-29 23:48, John Ralls wrote:
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.
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