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Setting the language in the Openerp GTK client

By sean - Posted on 23 February 2010

For months I was annoyed by the language in my GUI (on Windows XP) not conforming to settings.

In one case, the solution is to set the LANG variable in Windows:

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab > Environment variables
3. Click New to add a new system variable with name “LANG” and value “fr_CH” for example (Swiss french).

Also set 'lang = fr_CH' in the client section of c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME.openerprc

(however in v5.0.6 this keeps getting written back to en_US: setting the file to read-only stops that, but the etting is still not used correctly).

On the server side, make sure there is a corresponding entry under Administration -> Translation -> Application Terms -> Languages.

I must admit that despite the above a v5.0.6 instance on mine still puts all dates in American format, with Menu lang in french.

So date formatting is broken, in v5.0.6 at least.