Documentation en français

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:

> Let's take the naive user view.
>
> I'm running gnucash2.2.6, installed into Debian lenny using Debian 
> packages gnucash and gnucash-docs.  When I specify
>
> hendrik at lovesong:~$ export LANG=fr_FR
> hendrik at lovesong:~$ gnucash
>
> I get 
>
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at 
> configure time.
>
> * 13:25:47  WARN <Gtk> Locale not supported by C library.
> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.13
>
> and everything, including the menus and the contents of the hepl files, 
> is in English.  This suits me, but I suspect it doesn't suit her.
>
> Now maybe you have to speciry this environment variable at build time, 
> but the Debian binary packages don't seem to have that option.
> All in all, there are three relevant Debian packages, gnucash, 
> gnucash-docs, and gnucash-common.  None of them seem to be in variants 
> for different langauges.  Since Debian seems normally to support as many 
> languages as it has available, it suggests that at least as of version 
> 2.2.6, French was not available.
>
> -- hendrik

This is a Debian issue..  You need to specifically install and configure
"foreign" locales.  This error means that you have not done so.

The french translation of GnuCash works just fine for me here.

However, we do not have native French documentation.

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-derek

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