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Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)

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Kai Schlamp <schlamp@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 17, 2009, 15:11 UTC
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> I don't know much about language selection on windows (which you
> didn't say you're using, but I'm inferring it from the referenced
> thread), but you could try setting LC_MESSAGES=en and LANG=de_DE or
> whatever germany is, that should at least work in linux :). Maybe tk
> is nice enough to follow the same rules?
>

Thanks Mikael. But it seems that it was more a problem with the Cygwin console. LANG=en works now too without changing the keyboard layout. But your recommendation works also :-)

Cheers, Kai

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