[GNC] Reports in Alternate Language

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 20, 2021, at 10:29 AM, <paul at kroitor.ca> <paul at kroitor.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello all. This may have already been covered, but after the death of Nabble
> I can't see how to do searches throughout the archive.
> 
> 
> 
> I need to produce accounting reports in a different language (French), but I
> would prefer to use a single installation of Gnucash (all my other sets of
> books are English). 
> 
> 
> 
> 1.	Can I switch languages just for printing the reports? If yes, how? I
> understand that the Account Names, Descriptions, and so on are all going to
> need to be recorded in French in this set of books.
> 
> 
> 
> 2.	If that's not possible, how can I install two versions of GnuCash on
> Windows? Can I open the books in English Gnucash, work on them, then close
> and reopen the same books in the French GnuCash?
> 

Most search engines can search the list archives, just say site:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user followed by your search terms.

There's no such thing as English or French versions of GnuCash, every installation on Windows and macOS includes all of the translations. Some Linux distros try to save a few kB of space by separating out the translations, but that's not your concern.

What you want to do is make a shortcut to GnuCash with the LANG environment variable set to "fr_FR" as explained by this blog post: https://netlicensing.io/blog/2012/06/15/set-environment-variables-in-windows-shortcut/

Regards,
John Ralls