n-stein

@ovari Do you see this issue in Linux Mint?

The format of the date controls in wxWidgets is locale based. In Windows it's entirely dependent on your system locale, but for Linux you can try changing the locale in...

> For completeness, I also tried changing it to fr_FR (same as formats in the system) but that wouldn't save out - error \"Locale Invalid value\". For Linux I you...

I just tested this on my system. Changing MMEX's locale setting did not work, but setting a different system locale did change the display of the date. Here I have...

Ah, you are using mixed locales. What is the output of `flatpak info org.gnome.Platform.Locale`? Do you see both languages listed at the bottom?  In the past Flatpak has had...

@ovari is the original issue here (date field too small) still a problem for you in the 1.7.1 beta?

> Seems only /en for Flatpak but France formats are available - I installed them as they are not there by default on Debian. Since they are available on the...

> Appreciate your help on this issue but I'm curious to know how this might affect things generally since selecting the UK format had no effect on the date field...

Also, this text needs to be wrapped in `_( )` if it should be available for translation. https://github.com/moneymanagerex/moneymanagerex/blob/98fcf343f0ae12fbb5fbda71e5e4c3d6ff34e39f/src/mmframe.cpp#L2296

Pretty sure it's the missing `\` escape characters before the double quotation marks causing the build failures.