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→Run Gramps in a different language: Clarify use of localization environment variables, especially LC_TIME.
If you want to run Gramps in a locale you did not install, things will only work partially. You first need to set a fallback which is installed, or Gramps will never start. For example, if you have nl_BE.UTF-8 installed, and want to run in Swedish, you can do:
LC_ALL=nl_BE.UTF-8 LANGLANGUAGE="sv" python3 gramps '''N.B.:''' LC_TIME, which localizes date/time formats and translations, doesn't affect formats--those are set in Preferences--but does affect translations of month and day names (e.g. 'March' and 'Sunday') as well as qualifiers like 'before' and 'between'. Setting it will override LANG and LANGUAGE but not LC_ALL, which overrides everything else.
Gramps '''requires''' an UTF-8 locale to work correctly in most cases.
