Years ago here I had a requirement that the same Gnucash file was available in both French and English on the same (Windows) system. With the group’s help, I found that it was fairly straightforward to start Gnucash in a command shell established to use another language.
There will be posts from me in the archives here about it. I’ll do a search if it becomes important to you. > On Sep 10, 2026, at 9:09 AM, Pedro Albuquerque via gnucash-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here goes, attached the changed file and an image. Not sure the list accepts > this. > > > ----- > Regards, > Pedro Albuquerque > [Join StarLink](https://starlink.com?referral=RC-DF-11719992-38576-14) > >> Em 10/09/2026 às 14:01, Murugan Mariappan <[email protected]> >> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> From: Pedro Albuquerque <[email protected]> >> Sent: 10 September 2026 13:44 >> To: Murugan Mariappan <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; >> [email protected] <[email protected]>; John Ralls >> <[email protected]> >> 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. >> >> ----- >> Regards, >> Pedro Albuquerque >> [Join StarLink](https://starlink.com?referral=RC-DF-11719992-38576-14) >> >>> Em 10/09/2026 às 12:48, Murugan Mariappan <[email protected]> >>> escreveu: >>> >>> Pedro >>> >>> Can you save the environment file changes to file name environment.local >>> and restart GNUCash >>> >>> Saludos Cordiales >>> >>> Murugan >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> From: gnucash-user >>> <[email protected]> on behalf of >>> Pedro Albuquerque via gnucash-user <[email protected]> >>> Sent: 10 September 2026 05:21 >>> To: John Ralls <[email protected]> >>> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; >>> [email protected] <[email protected]> >>> 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. >>> >>> ----- >>> Regards, >>> Pedro Albuquerque >>> Join StarLink >>> >>> Em 10/09/2026 às 00:56, "John Ralls" <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[email protected]> 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. 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