[GNC] Settinguser language to English

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sun Oct 14 18:41:06 EDT 2018


Op maandag 15 oktober 2018 00:29:10 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > On Oct 13, 2018, at 2:16 AM, John Saunders <johnsaun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My laptop has Danish windows 7 professional but I need to run GnuCash in
> > English and can't find out how.
> > 
> > I have created the file environment.local in the same folder as
> > environment
> > 
> > environment.local contains: -
> > 
> > # If you wish GnuCash to use a different language, copy the two parameters
> > # below to environment.local, remove '# ' in front and set LANG to your
> > preferred locale LANG=nl_BE
> > LANGUAGE={EN}
> > # Set the location of the gnucash user specific application data
> > # The default depends on the operating system
> 
> Try following the instructions that you carefully copied into the file and
> then ignored: LANG=en_GB
> LANGUAGE={LANG}

Hmm, I can understand what caused the confusion. John S. dutifully changed 
LANG to EN, only in the wrong line. So clearly our instructions are still 
ambiguous. I have pushed a minor change in the instructions for the future. 
Hopefully that will be less ambiguous.

Geert




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