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Re: Windows 7 and git-gui/gitk language

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Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Date
Jun 19, 2009, 20:19 UTC
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Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
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>If you fire up wish on its own (it is installed with msys Git) and
>enter 'package require msgcat; msgcat::mclocale' in the console window
>it should be showing something other than 'en' if your Windows
>installation is non-English. There might be a bug for the Tcl people
>here (comp.lang.tcl or the sourceforge bug tracker).
>

To follow-up on myself - the msgcat locale is set on Windows by reading a value out of the registry. This seems to have changed on Windows 7 now so the locale always gets defaulted to 'C'. I'll raise a bug with the tcl project and get a fix done.

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