[GNC] GnuCash Language

Thu Sep 10 09:08:50 EDT 2026

Here goes, attached the changed file and an image. Not sure the list accepts this.

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Em 10/09/2026 às 14:01, Murugan Mariappan <m.muruganandam at hotmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi Pedro,
>
> I made the changes and saved the file as `environment.local` in the same directory. After launching GNUCash, I could see that the language had changed to Portuguese. Please refer the file and screen shot. Not sure why it is not working for you
>
> Saludos Cordiales
>
> Murugan
>
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> From: Pedro Albuquerque <pmra at protonmail.com>
> Sent: 10 September 2026 13:44
> To: Murugan Mariappan <m.muruganandam at hotmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>; adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>; John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Subject: Re[2]: [GNC] GnuCash Language
>
> Thank you Murugan, for the suggestion.
>
> If I rename the file like that, .local becomes the file extension. Not sure if that is what you want. Anyway, GC still starts in English.
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> Em 10/09/2026 às 12:48, Murugan Mariappan <m.muruganandam at hotmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Pedro
>>
>> Can you save the environment file changes to file name environment.local and restart GNUCash
>>
>> Saludos Cordiales
>>
>> Murugan
>>
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>> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Pedro Albuquerque via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Sent: 10 September 2026 05:21
>> To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>; adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash Language
>>
>> Hello, and thank you all for the comments.
>>
>> Tracefile (today 4h 54m) content:
>> * 04:53:55 WARN <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi()] No DBD
>> drivers found
>> * 04:54:04 WARN <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [transform_settings()] Failed to
>> load preferences transformation file
>> 'D:\Programas\Escritório\gnucash/share\gnucash/pref_transformations.xml'
>>
>> John, obviously, Windows environment variables and GnuCash environment file
>> were modified by me. But there is some kind of issue, yes.
>>
>> As you can see in the image, command systeminfo shows pt as my locale, but
>> running:
>>
>> C:\Windows\System32>dism /online /get-intl
>>
>> Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
>> Version: 10.0.26100.5074
>>
>> Image Version: 10.0.26200.8037
>>
>> Reporting online international settings.
>>
>> Default system UI language : pt-PT
>> The UI language fallback is : en-US
>> System locale : pt-PT
>> Default time zone : GMT Standard Time
>> Active keyboard(s) : 0816:00000816
>> Keyboard layered driver : PC/AT Enhanced Keyboard (101/102-Key)
>>
>> Installed language(s): pt-PT
>> Type : Partially localized language, MUI type.
>> Fallback Languages en-US
>>
>> The operation completed successfully.
>>
>> Shows some partial fault, I don't know why or what. GnuCash runs fine in
>> another laptop with Win10. This one was upgraded to Win11 following this
>> procedure:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_p3dBrr_Sg. It uses a Win server version, pt
>> language based. Maybe that is the issue. Funny thing is it only affects
>> GnuCash, all other programs recognize pt as default.
>>
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>> Pedro Albuquerque
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>> Em 10/09/2026 às 00:56, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> escreveu:
>>>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.
>>>>
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