Re: A posting's cost must be of a different commodity than its amount

[John Wiegley]

On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Chris Gray wrote:
2009/06/03 Westjet
   Expenses:Transportation:Air             C$429.80 @ 1.572865
   Expenses:Bank:Fees                           2.73
   Liabilities:Mastercard

Where 1.572865 is the exchange rate between Canadian dollars and Euros
that was used.

Is there a better way to do this or a workaround?

I'll look into this, but yeah I'd recommend using "2.73 EUR" to  
represent transactions in Euros.  Ledger does some special thing with  
"uncommoditized" amounts, which in some cases may end up surprising you.

John