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

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 21, 2007, 07:03 UTC
Message-ID: <C65193EE-A45D-49ED-8831-1A006421A915@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <20071021065230.GE14735@spearce.org>

On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> 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.
>>
>> 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.

Hmm. I have no shell. I run git-gui from the Windows Start Menu. It directly runs wish to execute the Windows git-gui wrapper:

--- SNIP --- #!/bin/sh # Tcl ignores the next line -*- tcl -*- \ exec wish "$0" -- "$@"

if { $argc >=2 && [lindex $argv 0] == "--working-dir" } {
         cd [lindex $argv 1]
         set argv [lrange $argv 2 end]
         incr argc -2
}

set gitguidir [file dirname [info script]] regsub -all ";" $gitguidir "\\;" gitguidir set env(PATH) "$gitguidir;$env(PATH)" unset gitguidir

source [file join [file dirname [info script]] git-gui.tcl] --- SNIP ---

Do we have a chance before we source the real git-gui.tcl? Maybe we could "set env(LANG)" based on "git config gui.lang"? Or is it already too late because we needed to restart wish?

	Steffen