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| − | In general GnuCash uses the system settings of your computer. So that should be your ''first choice'' to adjust them. But there are some cases, e.g. as a [[Translation|translator]], where you wish to tweak them. | + | In general GnuCash uses the system settings of your computer. So that should be your ''first choice'' to adjust them. But there are some cases, e.g. as a [[Translation|translator]], where you wish to tweak them. Usually this is done by setting ''environment variables'', but this depends on your operating system. |
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| + | It may be that both variables are not always required. It depends on the system. It does no harm to set both of them and this ensures that the language is really set. | ||
== Changing the Language on Linux == | == Changing the Language on Linux == | ||
Revision as of 19:49, 10 January 2011
While Gnucash was written in american english, there are many translations available. This page shows, how to adjust them.
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System settings
In general GnuCash uses the system settings of your computer. So that should be your first choice to adjust them. But there are some cases, e.g. as a translator, where you wish to tweak them. Usually this is done by setting environment variables, but this depends on your operating system.
LANG vs LANGUAGE
It may be that both variables are not always required. It depends on the system. It does no harm to set both of them and this ensures that the language is really set.
Changing the Language on Linux
In either case, you can easily switch between the various languages the gnucash has available by placing the LANG env var before the call to the executable:
LANG=pt_BR /opt/gnucash-svn/bin/gnucash
Changing the Language on Windows
If you are running GnuCash 2.4.0 (or newer) on Windows, you can set the interface language by editing the file "environment" in the folder "C:\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash" (or wherever you installed GnuCash into). If you want to change the default language to English, you should un-comment the following lines (remove # sign to un-comment) at the end of that file
LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE={LANG}
Note that the second line should remain as-is. The braces are a variable expansion of the LANG variable.
The Language lines in your Environment folder should look like this (change language variables based on desired language):
LANG=fr_CA
LANGUAGE={LANG}
(Older GnuCash versions had to change the file "gnucash.cmd" in the folder "C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin" (or wherever you installed GnuCash into). In those older versions, you had to add lines saying set LANGUAGE=en_US and set LANG=en_US to the end of the file.)
Changing the Language on OSX
GnuCash 2.4.0 or newer
If you are running GnuCash 2.4.0 (or newer) on OSX, you can set the interface language by creating/editing the file "environment.sh" in the folder "Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources". You can get there by right clicking on the Application and choosing "Show Package Contents" and then navigating to "Contents" and then "Resources".
Create a file named "environment.sh" with the following lines (change language variables based on desired language):
export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=nl_NL.UTF-8
GnuCash 2.2.9 and older
On OSX, a good place to set your language preference is in the file "Gnucash" in "Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS". You can get there by right clicking on the Application and choosing "Show Package Contents" and then navigating to "Contents" and then "MacOS". Change this file such that the last few lines are (change language variables based on desired language):
export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=nl_NL.UTF-8 $EXEC "$bundle_contents/MacOS/$name-bin" $* $EXTRA_ARGS
