Unable to change language

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 27 February 2014 09:06:11 Arvid Axelsson wrote:
> ________________________________
> 
> > 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! :)


I have tried this as well now on a Win XP box. No luck. On my main linux system this 
works without any problem so it looks like a Windows specific issue.

Can you file a bug report [1] for this please so it won't get lost ?

Thank you,

Geert

[1] Refer to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla to learn how to use bugzilla