How to run gnucash in a different language?

[Nico De Ranter]

Nope, found the problem and send it to the list but with the wrong
from-address so it's being held for approval :-).

The problem is that the locales haven't been properly generated. On
Debian run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and select the locales you will be
using. e.g. I selected '255. nl_BE ISO-8859-1' then afterwards I can use

export LANG=nl_BE; export LANGUAGE=nl_BE; gnucash

Nico

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 18:24, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 4:46 pm, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 17:39, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 4:10 pm, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm interested in using gnucash but I'd like to get the interface in
> > > > Dutch since I don't understand the English terminology. I've noticed on
> > > > the gnucash homepage that there is support for a lot of languages but I
> > > > can't figure out how to switch to a specific language. I tried 'export
> > > > LANG=nl; gnucash'
> > >
> > > Q: I want to use GnuCash in my own language (Debian users may need it)
> > > A: You have to set: "env LANGUAGE=fr_FR" and "env LANG=fr_FR". This
> > > example is for french (français). and then launch GnuCash
> > > http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashLion
> >
> > Tried that already but it didn't make any difference at all.
> 
> Please CC: the list on all replies (I'm still learning too!).
> 
> OK, I've just tried this in CVS HEAD and Debian unstable:
> 
> neil at garfield:~$ export LANGUAGE=fr_FR
> neil at garfield:~$ export LANG=fr_FR
> neil at garfield:~$ /opt/gnucash/local/bin/gnucash
> 
> and
> 
> neil at garfield:~$ export env LANGUAGE=fr_FR
> neil at garfield:~$ export env LANG=fr_FR
> neil at garfield:~$ /opt/gnucash/local/bin/gnucash
> 
> I get this in the output from $ set
> LANG=fr_FR
> LANGUAGE=fr_FR
> 
> Yet GnuCash doesn't change the language settings in either case.
> 
> Is this a bug are are Nico and I doing something wrong?
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