Unable to change language

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 14, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am 13.03.2015 um 23:54 schrieb John Ralls:
>> 
>>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:00 AM, John Sjölin <john.sjolin at swipnet.se> wrote:
>>> 
>>> To install correct language Swedish. 
>>> I had to rename:
>>> gnucash/share/locale/sv directory to gnucash/share/locale/se.
>>> 
>>> Then edit "enviroment" thus
>>> 
>>> LANG=se_SE
>>> LANGUAGE={LANG}
>>> This fixed the problem, pointing out a bug.
>>> 
>>> Other languages worked as described.
>> 
>> Why not just set LANG correctly? se is Sami, not Swedish. Swedish is sv. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> Just in case you prefer se, you can set
> LANGUAGE=se:sv       or
> LANGUAGE=se:fi:sv

Since neither Gtk+ nor GnuCash have Sami translations the first won't have any effect; you'll still get Swedish. The second will get you Finnish since both Gtk+ and GnuCash do have Finnish translations; however, if there are strings which aren't translated in Finnish but are translated in Swedish, you'll get those in Swedish instead of English. Whether or not that will make you crazy probably depends on your fluency in each.

Regards,
John Ralls