Location, language and formats

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 10 maart 2017 16:23:39 CET Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "Alain Dormoy" <cageda at bbox.fr> writes:
> > What OS/Distro are you using?
> > What older version of GnuCash did you have before?
> > What version did you just install?
> > 
> > Windows 7.
> > Old version was 2.4.11
> > New is 2.6.15.
> > 
> > Derek,
> > I eventually found in Wiki the file to modify.
> > It's "Environment" in Gnucash\etc\Gnucash.
> > BUT:
> > 1. By default LANG is set to nl_BE but when I use the software all the
> > mention are in english not Belgian Flemmish.
> 
> The "default" is commented out.
> 
> > 2. If I change LANG from nl_BE to fr_FR, I can't save the change,
> > apparently because I don't have administatror rights. Do you know can
> > I get those rights?
> 
> You need to "Open as Administrator".  You SHOULD have admin rights from
> your account, but you may need to open the file as an admin.
> 
> > BTW what does " 'uncomment' the following parameters" mean?
> 
> It means remove the comment character at the front of the line.

And to clarify this explicitly, the "comment character" in this file is the # 
sign (together with the space character immediately following it).

Each line that starts with this character is ignored by gnucash. So if you 
want to change the language settings you need to remove the # and space from 
the
# LANG=nl_BE
# LANGUAGE={LANG}
lines.

> 
> > 3. There is a mention in "Environment" that Gnucash was "not installed
> > in the default location". In fact it is in "Program Files (x86)"
> > rather than "Program Files" (Wiki says it should be in the latter).
> 
> I think you can ignore that.

Yes, this is an artifact from not using gnucash on linux (its native 
platform). But the settings were adjusted properly while you installed 
gnucash.

Regards,
Geert