[GNC] Reports in Alternate Language

[paul at kroitor.ca]

That's great, thanks. Exactly what I needed!

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Sent: August 20, 2021 2:57 PM
To: paul at kroitor.ca
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports in Alternate Language



> 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