Multi-lingual invoicing?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Egbert van der Wal <ewal at pointpro.nl> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Since a couple of weeks I've been doing an attempt to do accounting
> using gnucash. This is in a multi-lingual company.
>
> I myself am a native Dutch speaker, therefore, my PC is set to the
> Dutch language, and therefore gnucash uses Dutch too. The language we
> use in the company is English.
>
> I particularly like having gnucash in Dutch, but the gnucash
> accounting file has been created in English (by temporarily setting
> the language to English). Sometimes, the accounting file is accessed
> using gnucash in English by one of my colleagues.
>
> This mixes language in the file. For example, on invoices, the type is
> sometimes 'Uren' and sometimes 'Hours'. It is also sometimes
> Materiaal' and sometimes 'Material'. This creates inconsistent
> terminology and doesn't look good for customers.
>
> Is there any way to always save the terms in the file in English, no
> matter what language gnucash is currently using? Or maybe to restrict
> the type of invoice lines to a set of possibilities defined inside the
> .gnucash file?
>
> The ideal situation would be to have some kind of abstract type
> definition stored inside the file, and the actual text showing up on
> the invoice being dependent on the language gnucash is currently using
> (or preferably, the ability to set this on a per invoice or per
> customer basis). This issue will arise more for us regularly since we
> have both English speaking and Dutch speaking customers who would
> prefer to receive their invoices in their own language.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Egbert van der Wal

I am afraid that as GnuCash is implemented this is not possible.
The invoice interface assumes the invoices created are in the same
language as the user of GnuCash.

If you want English invoices you need to run GnuCash with an English
interface.

Sorry,

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-derek

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