Unable to change language

[Geert Janssens]

On Monday 16 March 2015 21:12:44 John Ralls wrote:
> > On Mar 16, 2015, at 7:35 PM, John Sjölin <john.sjolin at swipnet.se>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > My interest for gnucash is for a customer.
> > Not being able to install gnucash in Swedish led me to search the
> > net, where many have this problem with Swedish and in many cases
> > solutions that do not work on computers runing a Swedish Windows
> > operating system. I had tried all sugestions without success. I
> > even stumbled on a script where languges are defined, but cannot
> > remember where, perhaps the fault lies here. If you call changing
> > the name on the folder sv to se hacking, then yes I hacked it, this
> > is the only change made by me. The question remains why dosent
> > LANG= sv_SE work, especialy that Sami is not translated? I know you
> > are right in your ref. to the ISO codes.
> > It would be interesting to hear if you are running on an English
> > windows system and that sv_SE works there. Other langugaes tried
> > worked as instructed but not Swedish!
> > I have not tried gnucash on my Linux system as my customer uses
> > Windows. Another observation is that the Swedish translation is not
> > total.
> > 
> > I apreciate your input.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm on travel with only my Mac laptop and can't test on
> Windows until I get back at the end of the month. Uncommenting and
> setting to sv_SE the LANG and LANGUAGE lines in
> etc/gnucash/environment works fine there.
> 
I have just returned from travel :)

FYI: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725296

This is unfortunately a known, Windows-only bug. I doubt it's in gnucash code though. I'd 
rather suspect one of the libraries it depends on. John (Ralls), do you know off-hand which 
library is responsible for internationalization ? libglib ?

Geert