[GNC] Settinguser language to English

[Geert Janssens]

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2018 07:25:11 CEST schreef John Saunders:
> Hi Gert,
> GnCash still runs in Danish. I have tried both: -
> LANG=en_GB  and LANG=en
> LANGUAGE={LANG}
> 
Is the first line of your environment.local
[Variables]
as explained in the top comments of the environment file ? If that line is 
missing your settings in environment.local will be completely ignored.

Also Frank pointed me on irc to
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings
which holds more details on changing language (and other locale related 
parameters) for gnucash.

Regards,

Geert

> Best regards, John
> 
> the operating systemOn 15-10-2018 01:41, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > 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