German language

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On 2001-11-04T15:38:44,
   Martin Sengstschmid <ms@musiker.at> said:

> I would like to use gnucash in German language but I don't know how to
> do it

Set the LANG variable correctly and just start gnucash.

LANG should be set to, for example, "de_DE" in your system profile.

Alternatively, you can invoke gnucash as

[~] > LANG=de_DE gnucash

However, I have found that at least with 1.6.4, this doesn't always work
correctly, some menu prompts are fine directly after program startup, you
generate a new report, and the menu entries blank out; if you create your
accounts with de_DE, and then switch to the system language again to avoid
this, gnucash will create another "Opening Balances" account, because it
doesn't recognize the "Anfangsbestand" created in the German environment etc.

I have found that translated programs generally don't work for me and try to
use them in their original language or at least English, because those are
usually tested best ;-)


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