[GNC] Alternate Language (Again)

[paul at kroitor.ca]

So I've discovered that something about those nested command processors
isn't working the way it did in earlier versions of Windows. Or maybe
there's a typo I'm just not seeing. In any case, some experimentation that a
simple batch file works fine (I called mine GnuStart.bat).

c:
cd c:\users\public\documents\financial
set LANG=fr_CA
start /D "c:\program files (x86)\gnucash\bin" gnucash.exe

I just put a shortcut on the desktop to GnuStart.bat and it works a charm.

Thanks as always,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor.ca at gnucash.org> On
Behalf Of paul at kroitor.ca
Sent: August 27, 2021 6:00 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Alternate Language (Again)

I should be following up an earlier thread of two weeks ago, but I find I've
deleted the messages from my Inbox and can't see any way to "Reply To"
something I only have in the archives. So I'm creating a new thread
(Apologies: I'm no longer used to using true mailing lists instead of
wrappers like nabble that make it all child's play).

Here's that prior thread:

> On Aug 20, 2021, at 10:29 AM,
<https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user>
<https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> 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

=====================

That seemed to fully answer the basic question, but now that I try it out, I
find it doesn't work. I still get everything (except the creation of the
Chart of Accounts, for which the language selection is working) in English.

Here is the shortcut target I'm using, as per the link suggested:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET LANG=fr_FR && START /D ^"C:\Program
Files (x86)\gnucash\bin^" gnucash.exe"

Compare with the webpage text, which is:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET LANG=en  && START /D ^"C:\Program Files
(x86)\Inkscape^" inkscape.exe"

As these are as close to identical as can be achieved, I am at a loss as to
why it doesn't work.

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