Environment file LANG setting

[Geert Janssens]

On Monday 03 January 2011, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:
> > On Sunday 02 Jan 2011 20:32:42 Yawar Amin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> On 2010-12-22, at 08:36, yagoona wrote:
> >> > […]
> >> > 
> >> > I have read that all it requires is a change to the 'LANG setting in
> >> > the environment file'.
> >> > 
> >> > Where is this file?
> >> > Can I simply open it in a text editor and change the setting manually?
> >> 
> >> On Windows, try the method in [1].
> >> 
> >> Hope this helps,
> >> 
> >> Yawar
> >> 
> >> [1]
> >> http://superuser.com/questions/25037/change-environment-variables-as-sta
> >> nd ard-user-windows-7
> > 
> > Have a look for a file called gnucash-env into which you can add your
> > language definition.  Use a plain text editor.  On Linux you insert:
> > locale=en_GB (for British English) this may also apply for Windows.(?)
> > MIke E
> 
> Note also that the method of setting this changed in 2.4.0.  There is
> now an "environment" config file that you need to modify.
> 
> -derek
See the GnuCash FAQ [1]. It explains both for 2.2.x and 2.4 how to change your 
language in Windows.

Geert

[1] 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_want_to_use_GnuCash_in_my_own_language