# Gitk local language issue

2 messages from 2012-02-17 to 2012-02-18. Participants: shyamal, Pat Thoyts.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29648

## shyamal, 2012-02-17 08:30

Subject: Gitk local language issue
Message-ID: <1329467459691-7293532.post@n2.nabble.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1329467459691-7293532.post%40n2.nabble.com

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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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## Pat Thoyts, 2012-02-18 13:09

Subject: Re: Gitk local language issue
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8762f4xp8y.fsf%40fox.patthoyts.tk
In-Reply-To: <1329467459691-7293532.post@n2.nabble.com>

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shyamal <shyamal2005@gmail.com> writes:

>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.

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


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