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UsuallyIf Gramps has the appropriate translation, calendar, etc. it will honor the default settings in System Preferences>Language and Region provided that the combination results in a locale that exists in /usr/share/locale. It will be correctalways fall back to English if it can't figure out your Language & Region settings. Some examples: French and France, but occasionally you may need to set things up differentlyBelgium, or Canada work fine, as do German and Germany or Switzerland and Dutch and Netherlands or Belgium. German and France doesn't work, nor does Dutch and Switzerland.

'''Language:''' Normally, Gramps sets up languages and formats from system preferences (Language and Text on Snow Leopard and Lion; International on Leopard). There are three main settings:* On the first pane (Language(s)) is a list of languages. Gramps will go down the list and select the first one for which it has a translation to select the '''language in which all menus, labels, and messages''' are presented.* On the right side of that pane at the bottom is an "Order for sorted lists" listbox which sets the way that '''lists are alphabetically sorted'''.* Finally, in the third pane (second pane in Leopard) (Formats) one can select a country/Region which determines things like '''month and day names, whether a comma, dot, or space is used to separate thousands or decimal fractions, and so on'''. If you want to run Gramps with different language or locale settings than you use for your system settings, you can use the "defaults" program from Terminal.app (Applications:Utilities:Terminal.app): defaults write -app Gramps AppleLanguages "(de, en)"

defaults write -app to set Gramps AppleCollationOrder "de"AppleLanguages corresponds to the language list, AppleLocale to the Format country/Region, operate in German with German calendar and AppleCollationOrder selects the way that lists are sorted. You need not set them allformatting.