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[Pedro Albuquerque]

Hello Derek,

Thank you for your quick answer. Please let me comment on this, and forgive my
directness, I don't mean nothing by it. It's just my way.

First off, and like I said, this is a users question. One should not be
pointed to a developers page. But, I did write to a developers list, my bad
(⸝⸝⸝O﹏ O⸝⸝⸝).

Second, like you said yourself, "It should pick the system locale". Clearly,
it isn't. IMHO, the system locale is pt_PT Portugal, the one and only
Portuguese. GnuCash uses the vast pt, that includes all dialects around the
world. Maybe that is why GnuCash fails to pick it?

As you can imagine, my Windows system has all settings, date, time, regional,
language, etc, set for Portugal. Nothing to change there (opposed to my Linux
usual computer, that is fully set to en_UK, where I can configure environment
variables and have GnuCash using my own translations :) )

Worst case, even with that environment.local file, the result is the exact
same. But, I think you were already expecting this, judging by your last
comment, "Good Luck!" ;). From my very little experience, computers dont work
out of luck.

There is, or was, a feature request in Bugzilla, created by me, asking that a
UI language choice would exist somewhere in Preferences/Options/Whatever, like
most software these days has. Please do consider this issue here as another
reason for that to happen?

Again, many thanks for your trouble, and congratulations to the whole team for
this excellent software.

--
Regards,
Pedro Albuquerque

Em 16/10/2025 às 13:01, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> escreveu:
>Hi Pedro,
>
>It should pick up the system locale.  Did you follow the instructions at
>https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings
>for setting it up?
>
>Worst case, you could change the GnuCash environment file (also documented
>on that Wiki page).
>
>Good Luck!
>
>-derek
>
>On Thu, October 16, 2025 4:21 am, Pedro Albuquerque wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know this is a question for the users list, but I can't post or
>> subscribe without the approval of a moderator, from whom I didn't here in
>> weeks. I assume there are still access problems, like with Bugzilla.
>>
>> I installed GnuCash under Windows 10, Portuguese, and Gnucash doesn't
>> recognize the system language, please see images below.
>>
>> During install, I didn't see an option to change language or select a
>> translation. I know for sure Gnucash is translated in Portuguese, I do the
>> translation. How do I solve this, please?
>> ​
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Pedro Albuquerque_______________________________________________
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>> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
>>
>
>
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