Nope, that won't work. The translations are already there in the Win32 equivalent location of /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.gmo All strings that lyx is asked to display are filtered at run time through a translator mechanism called gettext. Setting the LANG environment variable causes lyx to look for the translated string in the fr/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.gmo file. If it finds it, then that is what is displayed. If not, then you get English.Assuming you run the native Win32 version, the Windows equiv is to set your "Language and Regional Options" to French. I think just the Langauge settings under the "Advanced" tab will do. I haven't tried this though, since you need to reboot.
After copying the folder 'locale' to my lyx-tree, I get german menues when starting LyX (I use a german Windows). But I want to switch the locale from time to time. Ruurd wrote on his site:
"eg for german set the following environment variable: LANG=de_DE"
So it must be possible to set another locale somewhere. I just don't know where.
Thanks Uwe
