Workaround for Localization Behaviour?

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Guillaume Lessard <glessard at tffenterprises.com>:

>
> On Mac OS X 10.5, GnuCash has what I would characterize as incorrect
> localization behaviour; it picks its units and time/date display from
> the locale, but also derives its display language from the locale.
> There is a separate preference for display languages (implemented as
> an ordered list.) I happen to have English before my locale's default
> language, so I'm not getting the expected behaviour.
>
> Is this a gnucash bug or is this something inherited from the gnome
> toolkit?

It's all based on setlocale().  So whatever 'locale' returns is
what GnuCash uses.

> Is there a way to force gnucash's localization to something other than
> the environment's default?

set the LANG variable, ala:  LANG=en_US gnucash

> Thanks,
>
> --
> Guillaume Lessard
> glessard at tffenterprises.com

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-derek

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