Unable to change language

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 25 February 2014 13:52:29 John Ralls wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Arvid Axelsson <arax12345 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > To begin with, I'm running gnucash 2.6.1 in Windows 7. I'm trying to change the language 
used by gnucash to swedish from the standard english. To do this i've changed the 
environment file so that it reads:
> >     # If you wish GnuCash to use a different language, uncomment the
> >     two parameters # below and set LANG to your preferred locale
> >     LANG=sv_SE
> >     LANGUAGE={LANG}
> >     GNC_DBD_DIR={GNC_HOME}/lib/dbd
> >     
> >     # GnuCash was not installed in the default location
> >     # XDG_DATA_DIRS will be set so that our documentation
> >     # and gsettings schemas are found.
> >     XDG_DATA_DIRS={GNC_HOME}/share;{XDG_DATA_DIRS};/usr/local/share;
> >     /usr/share> 
> > I've also tried using nl_BE to see if that could work but it didn't.
> > I can't find anything in the trace files concerning locale. This is
> > a problem that I experience on two computers running the same OS
> > and version of gnucash. Any ideas how this can be solved?
> Try using the Microsoft locale name: Swedish_Sweden. It has some
> holes, maybe because of an incomplete translation, maybe because our
> l18n code needs to be overhauled for M$Win.
> 
Another thing to try would be to change the lines in the environment file to:
LC_ALL=sv_SE
LANG=sv_SE
LANGUAGE={LANG}

Geert