Unable to change language

[Arvid Axelsson]

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> Subject: Re: Unable to change language
> From: jralls at ceridwen.us
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:09:53 -0800
> CC: janssens-geert at telenet.be; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To: arax12345 at hotmail.com
>
>
> 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
>
>
>>
>

It didn't work. Even tried it once again just now. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium fully updated. Something I came to think about: it has always set SEK as the standard currency.

/Arvid