Changing the default language in GnuCash

[Fred Bone]

On 21 January 2009 at 0:57, Frank H. Ellenberger said:

> Hoi,
> 
> Am Tuesday 20 January 2009 22:30:11 schrieb John Smith:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Robert Smits <labour at telus.net> wrote:
> > > You can change the currency by going to edit/preferences/accounts. Don't
> > > forget to change the reports tab as well. Going to date/time will let you
> > > change the date and time prefences as well.
> >
> > Ok, so that will let me change the currency and the date/time formats,
> > but not the language that the menu's and options appear in. Is there a
> > way to make the menu's in English instead of in Dutch here as well ?
> 
> Some details are in
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Questions_about_GnuCash_Localization_.28L10n.29_and_Internationalization_.28I18n.29
> and
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Determining_the_locale
> 
> There could also be a setting in gnucash.bat/cmd

Adding
set LANG=en
just before the final line ("start ...") of gnucash.bat should fix the 
OP's problem. At least, if I add "set LANG=fr", it changes mine to 
French. From next program restart, of course.