From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantin Khomoutov Subject: Re: git-gui appears to not respect Windows 7 settings on Display Language. Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 03:23:34 +0300 Message-ID: <20101101002334.GF18845@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Menegakis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 01 01:26:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCiEg-0007mj-Md for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:26:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754130Ab0KAAXk (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:23:40 -0400 Received: from mailhub.007spb.ru ([84.204.203.130]:57311 "EHLO mailhub.007spb.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753940Ab0KAAXj (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:23:39 -0400 Received: from proxysrv.domain007.com ([10.8.0.42]) by mailhub.007spb.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oA10NZWQ023361; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 03:23:36 +0300 Received: by proxysrv.domain007.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AD1B45A220; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 03:23:35 +0300 (MSK) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 (www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang) on 192.168.2.20 X-Antivirus: Dr.Web (R) for Mail Servers on proxysrv host X-Antivirus-Code: 100000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 09:53:37PM +0200, Michael Menegakis wrote: > For some unknown sorcery Microsoft does not refer to 'Locale' the same > as UNIX. There is only a display-characters method, only if a > character set is not unicode. For actual display of language they have > now on 7 a package downloading mechanism to have the whole system show > a language. > > On 7 right now I have locale on Greek so that any non-unicode programs > will work with that. But the display language is English and no Greek > or other non-English package has been installed. The location is also > Greece but that doesn't affect other programs either. > > In general these settings make almost all programs to display English > by default. Only a minority like git-gui don't. I suggest you raising this question on the msysgit mailing list [1] or file a bug to its tracker. 1. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/