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]<mailto:[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. Thank you in advance. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >[email protected] >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
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