From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:00:18 GMT
Subject: Re: How to run git-gui always in English?
Message-ID: <5AD0C329-7136-42A3-9202-865E70A29B65@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <CCAD0DE0-65D4-4FEC-B02F-658010FECD04@zib.de>


On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> 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.

And it's even worse. An error in the localization can completely
break git-gui. Apparently the German localization included in
msysgit's Git-1.5.3-preview20071019.exe _is_ broken (see
attached png).

Shouldn't the localization code be a bit more fault tolerant?

	Steffen