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[Pedro Albuquerque]

OK, thank you John!

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Regards,
Pedro Albuquerque

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On Monday, 20 October 2025 at 15:15, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Pedro,
>
> No, the installer language choice doesn’t affect anything but the strings displayed by the installer. As for why not, it’s because there wasn’t one available for the (now rather ancient) version of Inno Setup that we use.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Oct 19, 2025, at 21:25, Pedro Albuquerque <pmra at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Maybe this is the problem, since the installer doesn't provide a Portuguese translation (why not ? ), and I'm obviously not going to use Brazilian, I choose English:
>>
>> <GunCash Install Menu.png>
>>
>> -----
>> Regards,
>> Pedro Albuquerque
>>
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>> On Friday, 17 October 2025 at 07:06, Pedro Albuquerque <pmra at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello John, all,
>>>
>>> Lots of messages, thank you for your trouble. I'll try to answer all of them. Please remember, most of these commands and stuff, I just search the Internet and pick them, like PowerShell Get-WinSystemLocale.
>>>
>>> John, as a side information, Gramps starts in Portuguese. Maybe I should just reinstall GnuCash.
>>>
>>> Installed version is indeed 5.13. I don't recall which was the prior, I just [Revo uninstalled](https://www.revouninstaller.com/) it. That reminded me to try GnuCashPortable, from [PortableApps](https://portableapps.com/), and it started in Portuguese.
>>>
>>> I edited environment removing # from lines [Variables], LANG=pt_PT, and LANGUAGE={LANG}. Didn't work. Maybe I need some more editing?
>>>
>>> GnuCash's shortcut target: D:\Programas\Escritório\gnucash\bin\gnucash.exe
>>> Below are some of the environment variables, only LANG seems to be set:
>>>
>>> PowerShell Get-Culture and Windows settings:
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Pedro Albuquerque
>>>
>>> Em 16/10/2025 às 21:36, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> escreveu:
>>>
>>>>> On Oct 16, 2025, at 1:15 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>>> Pedro,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just tested 5.13 installed from the distribution setup.exe on Win11 after installing Portuguese and setting it as the System Language. GnuCash opened in Portuguese as expected.
>>>>
>>>> Pedro,
>>>>
>>>> I didn’t notice until after posting that that Get-WindowSystemLocale isn’t the right command. The command that shows what is the current display locale is Get-Culture. That means there’s another thing for you to check: Settings>Time and Language>Language and Region. The top box under Language has a drop-down showing the current display language. Make sure that’s Portuguese and not English.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
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