> On Aug 27, 2021, at 2:59 PM, <p...@kroitor.ca> <p...@kroitor.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.
GnuCash has another layer to it's localization. Try
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET LANG=fr_FR && SET LANGUAGE=fr_FR && START
/D ^"C:\Program
Files (x86)\gnucash\bin^" gnucash.exe"
Regards,
John Ralls
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