+1 Thank you!
--
Regards,
Pedro Albuquerque

Em 16/10/2025 às 15:10, "Derek Atkins" <[email protected]> escreveu:
>Hi,
>
>I don't think the file is supposed to be called "environment.local".  I
>think it is literally called "environment".
>
>GnuCash SHOULD take a pt_PT environment and use the "pt" language.  I
>honestly don't know why it is not doing that.  Unless there is something
>about "pt-PT" vs "pt_PT"?
>
>I've added gnucash-user to the CC list; your replies will just get
>moderated, but Liz (the moderator) should clear them up within a day.  I
>don't use Windows myself so I don't have direct experience -- however
>there ARE a ton of windows users out there and hopefully one of them can
>help you!
>
>Thanks!
>
>-derek
>
>On Thu, October 16, 2025 9:45 am, Pedro Albuquerque wrote:
>> Hello Derek,
>>
>> Thank you for your quick answer. Please let me comment on this, and
>> forgive my
>> directness, I don't mean nothing by it. It's just my way.
>>
>> First off, and like I said, this is a users question. One should not be
>> pointed to a developers page. But, I did write to a developers list, my
>> bad
>> (⸝⸝⸝O﹏ O⸝⸝⸝).
>>
>> Second, like you said yourself, "It should pick the system locale".
>> Clearly,
>> it isn't. IMHO, the system locale is pt_PT Portugal, the one and only
>> Portuguese. GnuCash uses the vast pt, that includes all dialects around
>> the
>> world. Maybe that is why GnuCash fails to pick it?
>>
>> As you can imagine, my Windows system has all settings, date, time,
>> regional,
>> language, etc, set for Portugal. Nothing to change there (opposed to my
>> Linux
>> usual computer, that is fully set to en_UK, where I can configure
>> environment
>> variables and have GnuCash using my own translations :) )
>>
>> Worst case, even with that environment.local file, the result is the exact
>> same. But, I think you were already expecting this, judging by your last
>> comment, "Good Luck!" ;). From my very little experience, computers dont
>> work
>> out of luck.
>>
>> There is, or was, a feature request in Bugzilla, created by me, asking
>> that a
>> UI language choice would exist somewhere in Preferences/Options/Whatever,
>> like
>> most software these days has. Please do consider this issue here as
>> another
>> reason for that to happen?
>>
>> Again, many thanks for your trouble, and congratulations to the whole team
>> for
>> this excellent software.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Pedro Albuquerque
>>
>> Em 16/10/2025 às 13:01, "Derek Atkins" <[email protected]> escreveu:
>>>Hi Pedro,
>>>
>>>It should pick up the system locale.  Did you follow the instructions at
>>>https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings
>>>for setting it up?
>>>
>>>Worst case, you could change the GnuCash environment file (also
>>> documented
>>>on that Wiki page).
>>>
>>>Good Luck!
>>>
>>>-derek
>>>
>>>On Thu, October 16, 2025 4:21 am, Pedro Albuquerque wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I know this is a question for the users list, but I can't post or
>>>> subscribe without the approval of a moderator, from whom I didn't here
>>>> in
>>>> weeks. I assume there are still access problems, like with Bugzilla.
>>>>
>>>> I installed GnuCash under Windows 10, Portuguese, and Gnucash doesn't
>>>> recognize the system language, please see images below.
>>>>
>>>> During install, I didn't see an option to change language or select a
>>>> translation. I know for sure Gnucash is translated in Portuguese, I do
>>>> the
>>>> translation. How do I solve this, please?
>>>> ​
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Pedro Albuquerque_______________________________________________
>>>> gnucash-devel mailing list
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>>       [email protected]             www.ihtfp.com
>>>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>--
>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>       [email protected]             www.ihtfp.com
>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant


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