[GNC] GnuCash Language

[John Ralls]

The install-time language dialog box on Windows is just for the installer’s UI. All of the GnuCash and Gtk translations are included in the gnucash-xx-setup.exe.

From the screenshot it looks like you’re unable to get GnuCash to give you Portuguese no matter what: Setting LANG=pt_PT in the environment file would override the system locale setting.

Is there anything in the trace file? (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile)

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Sep 9, 2026, at 14:18, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Were you not given a choice at install time?
> 
> I vaguely recall threads here of some mixed-locale systems having issues though. If that is the case with your setup, it could be why GnuCash defaulted to English. Do a search just on this list and you should find the solution. I also vaguely recall there being a step of editing a locale file to resolve it.
> 
> On 9/9/26 05:23, Pedro Albuquerque via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm looking for ideas on how to convince GnuCash to use the default system language. Can anyone think of something? Because I can't. Thank you in advance.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.