Gitk local language issue

Hi,

I am working in Japan now on a windows environment. I installed GIT on my machine.When I run the application,The menus are in Japanese.To get the English menu I added @set LANG=en at the beginning of git.cmd file.This worked like a magic :-) But when I click the Visualize master' history from the repository menu of Git Gui, a new interface (Gitk:Websites) opens where all the menus are still in Japanese.Any idea how to change the menu to English in Gitk too?

Thanks in advance

Regards, Shyamal.

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shyamal <shyamal2005@gmail.com> writes:

If I modify the git.cmd file here on my English system to include @set LANG=fr just after the @set PLINK_PROTOCOL=ssh command, then git gui runs with French menus and selecting the view history menu item launches gitk with French menus.

This is because git-gui executes a new tcl interpreter subprocess passing in the known gitk script location. So the gitk process inherits the git-gui environment (including this LANG setting). It doesn't call the gitk.cmd script on Windows.

Possibly your interpreter is picking up some other locale setting. The msgcat script will use LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES or LANG (in that order) and only makes use of the first one it sees. So perhaps you have an LC_ALL set someplace - however, I would assume that would force the git-gui script to use that locale too.

One quick hack would be to modify bin/gitk and after the msgcat
initialization force the locale using:
   msgcat::mclocale en