2010/7/12 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:

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.

These are actually two different questions here, or can be. I will deal with just one.

How to change GIMP 2.6 to any language Without changing the language of windows?

It's as easy as 1-2-3

1. Go to this folder C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\share\locale [Note: \local folder contains all possible languages in GIMP]

2. Create a new folder \local\ALL LANGUAGES
Move all extra language folders into that folder.

3. Let remain in the \local folder only the one language you wish to use in GIMP.

In my case I will keep en_CA = English Canada

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LATER IF YOU WANT ANOTHER LANGUAGE YOU CAN REPLACE IT WITH YOU PRESENT CHOOSEN LANGUAGE under the \local folder (ie. ENGLISH) TO A DIFFERENT ONE.

NOW JUST OPEN GIMP AND YOUR NEW LANGUAGE WILL BE PRESENT.

There are a lot more complicated ways of doing it. This is just one quick and dirty way of doing it.

This website here. . . http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052(v=vs.85).aspx

Will give you all the possible Language Codes You will have to figure out which folder most likely fits your language.

ADDED NOTE: I didn't really want to write this up because of time constraints. Buttttt..... It only seems fair to share. Others have helped me in this way so it's my turn.

Hope it helps.

I guess gimpusers.com/forum doesn't allow you to correct anything once you have entered data.

So here goes now.

BEFORE YOU DO THE ABOVE CLOSE GIMP COMPLETLY

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:57:09 +0200, icnow wrote:

How to change GIMP 2.6 to any language Without changing the language of windows?

Guess what? It's answered in the FAQ:

Thanks. The steps you described is nice way to fix language problem, that works for me.