Mac Quickbooks International Currency Symbol
23:09 Wednesday, 24 October 2007
We like to print invoices in a variety of currencies. There’s no setting in QuickBooks for this - it takes the system default… Well, most of the time. If you have your Region (International PreferencePane, System Preferences) set to one where the little yellow triangle shows up with the message about Unicode and WorldScript, the currency symbol is ignored. So, say I have China selected for no other reason than say I’m in China and billing in Yuan QuickBooks will use the $ (USD) symbol. I have to set the Region to ‘United States’ (not the Unicode one, the other one) and manually set the Currency to Yuan and the Measurement Units to Metric (not Imperial or as the Mac has it ‘U.S.’). Then QuickBooks is happy. Obvious really now I think about it.