[GNC] GnuCash Language

[John Ralls]

Pedro,

The missing dbd drivers and preferences_transfom.xml suggest that your GnuCash installation is broken. Does D:\Programas\Escritório\gnucash\share\locale\pt\LC_MESSAGES\gnucash.mo exist?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Sep 9, 2026, at 21:21, Pedro Albuquerque <pmra at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -----
> Regards,
> 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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