Unable to change language

[Arvid Axelsson]

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> From: janssens-geert at telenet.be 
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
> CC: jralls at ceridwen.us; arax12345 at hotmail.com 
> Subject: Re: Unable to change language 
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:27:01 +0100 
> 
> 
> 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

I've now tried what you guys suggested but it still doesn't work. I don't know if this matters but here's what i can find in the trace file.

    * 16:16:22  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2017 bytes.
    The identifiers might not be very random.
    * 16:16:49  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or     directory)

Anyway: thank you for the quick replies! :)