Unable to change language

[John Ralls]

On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:06 AM, Arvid Axelsson <arax12345 at hotmail.com> 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! :) 	

Really? Setting
LANG=Swedish_Sweden 

didn't work? It worked for me on Windows7 Home Premium. What version of Win7 are you running and what language/locale is Windows itself running?

Regards,
John Ralls


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