That works, many thanks.

> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 13:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patrick James <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [GNC]  Accounts Page contains ? symbol since upgrade
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> What you are reporting is Bug 799821.
> 
> Since you're running Windows, you may download the latest nightly build, 
> which includes the fix.
> 
> In Bug 799821, 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."
> 
> Others have confirmed the fix.
> 
> 
> > On 10/07/2026 10:09 AM PDT Nigel Leach via gnucash-user 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've just upgraded from v5.15 to v5.17 om Windows 26H2.
> >
> > On the initial Accounts pane the values for each account in the totals 
> > column now contain and extraneous ?.
> >
> > So, for example Asset total of ?123.45 is now ??123.45.
> >
> > It appears purely cosmetic, and doesn't seem to cause any issues.
> >
> > Regards
> > Nigel
> 
> 
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