Language setting Windows 7 and GIMP 2.6

Hi,

I got a mail from a German in Saudia Arabia. He runs Windows 7 with
English as default language. He installed GIMP 2.6.9 and it comes up
in Arabic which he can't read.

He sent me a screen shot which shows the menus of his mail program in
the back behind the Arabic GIMP. They are in German, but he says his
system is running in English. Localisation Hell?

I haven't used Windows since 98SE, so I have no idea how to help him.
Any pointers?


Rolf
(http://meetthegimp.org)

2010/7/12 meetthegimp.org <info@meetthegimp.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I got a mail from a German in Saudia Arabia. He runs Windows 7 with
> English as default language. He installed GIMP 2.6.9 and it comes up
> in Arabic which he can't read.
>
> He sent me a screen shot which shows the menus of his mail program in
> the back behind the Arabic GIMP. They are in German, but he says his
> system is running in English. Localisation Hell?
>
> I haven't used Windows since 98SE, so I have no idea how to help him.
> Any pointers?
>

Set the LANG environment variable to "en" without the quotation marks.

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:53:21 +0200, meetthegimp.org wrote:

> I haven't used Windows since 98SE, so I have no idea how to help him.
> Any pointers?

This is answered in the FAQ, too:
<http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/faq.html#language>

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:09:08 +0200, Torsten Neuer wrote:

> Business as usual on Windows systems where there is no true localisation
> because the translations are mostly found in the program's resources (i.e.
> attached to the program files at linktime) and not in language catalogs...

Actually, this is just a gettext bug, since it uses Format instead of the
Display Language setting from Windows' Regional and Language options.