Re: How to run git-gui always in English?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 21, 2007, 06:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20071021065230.GE14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <CCAD0DE0-65D4-4FEC-B02F-658010FECD04@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

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> There are a lot of efforts going on to localize git-gui,
> including technical terms like "push". Personally I don't
> understand what this should be useful for. The command is called
> "git push"s. So, why should it be named differently in the gui.
> 
> Anyway, I can switch it off, right? So here's my question.
> 
> How can I switch msysgit's git-gui to English, independently of
> the language selected for Windows? I recognized that git-gui
> adjusts to the 'language selection' of Windows. How can I
> disable this? I want git-gui to always display English. Nothing
> else, never! I can't help people who use a different language
> in the gui, because I'll not understand what they are talking
> about and they'll not understand me.
> 
> Can I set an option in git-gui's option menu? I haven't
> found one.

Yea, we don't have a UI to let you set what language the UI should appear in. Partly because once the UI is up we'd have to restart the entire process to change the strings its using. And partly because nobody has asked for this before.

I think that if you set LANG=en before you start git-gui it will take on English, and so will all of the standard dialogs that we "borrow" from wish.

-- 
Shawn.