Language change mystery mysteriously solved

[rmomxtx at gmail.com]

To: Greg Feneis, John Ralls, David Carlson, Derek Atkins

 

Thanks for your help. 

 

I went back and double checked the language settings and there are several,
some I had overlooked. Region/formats was set to Spanish (españa) and
Region/location was set to Mexico. I changed the formats to English and the
location to the US. Next time I opened the program the menus were in
English. 

 

The tabs were still in Spanish. General Ledger was still Libro General. I
closed it and opened the general ledger from the Tools menu and the tab was
renamed in English.

 

I have another computer in Spanish with GnuCash installed for accounting in
our Learning Center in Puebla, Mexico. That program was in English. So I
changed every language setting I could find. Restarting GnuCash produced the
same result in reverse, everything is now in Spanish. Closing and reopening
the customer tab and the General Ledger tab changed the names to clientes
and Libro General.

 

The accounts/cuentas tab remains in the previous language. If I knew how to
close that tab and reopen it I am quite sure the name of the tab would
change appropriately. Would be helpful if someone could coach me on that.

 

I did finally get the Program files (x86)/gnucash/etc/gnucash/environment
opened in Note Pad. Thanks for the tip Greg Feneis as well as the guides
from the rest of you.

 

I think the take away to change languages in an installed version of GnuCash
is to hunt down all the language options and change them to the language you
want the program to show.

 

Appreciate the help. Just one step remaining: how to close and reopen the
accounts tab.

 

Thanks,

Roger