Windows 7 and git-gui/gitk language

Windows 7 and git-gui/gitk language

[Peter Krefting]

Hi!

When running on Windows XP (no matter which language of the OS I had 
installed), git-gui and gitk (msys) would show up in the language I had set 
up as my primary language in the Control Panel (Swedish).

I am now running Git on the Windows 7 RC, and I cannot get it to work, I get 
English in all cases. I have set all locale settings in the Control Panel to 
Swedish, and even installed the Swedish Display Language Pack and set the OS 
language to Swedish.

Does anyone know if there is something else I need to do to get git-gui/gitk 
to display in Swedish?

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Windows 7 and git-gui/gitk language

[Pat Thoyts]

Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

>Hi!
>
>When running on Windows XP (no matter which language of the OS I had
>installed), git-gui and gitk (msys) would show up in the language I
>had set up as my primary language in the Control Panel (Swedish).
>
>I am now running Git on the Windows 7 RC, and I cannot get it to work,
>I get English in all cases. I have set all locale settings in the
>Control Panel to Swedish, and even installed the Swedish Display
>Language Pack and set the OS language to Swedish.
>
>Does anyone know if there is something else I need to do to get
>git-gui/gitk to display in Swedish?

You could try setting the LANG environment variable. I've got an
English installation of Windows 7 but setting LANG=sv before starting
git gui or gitk causes the program to show what looks like Swedish
labels and menus.

If you fire up wish on its own (it is installed with msys Git) and
enter 'package require msgcat; msgcat::mclocale' in the console window
it should be showing something other than 'en' if your Windows
installation is non-English. There might be a bug for the Tcl people
here (comp.lang.tcl or the sourceforge bug tracker).

-- 
Pat Thoyts                            http://www.patthoyts.tk/
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Re: Windows 7 and git-gui/gitk language

[Pat Thoyts]

Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>If you fire up wish on its own (it is installed with msys Git) and
>enter 'package require msgcat; msgcat::mclocale' in the console window
>it should be showing something other than 'en' if your Windows
>installation is non-English. There might be a bug for the Tcl people
>here (comp.lang.tcl or the sourceforge bug tracker).
>

To follow-up on myself - the msgcat locale is set on Windows by
reading a value out of the registry. This seems to have changed on
Windows 7 now so the locale always gets defaulted to 'C'. I'll raise a
bug with the tcl project and get a fix done.

-- 
Pat Thoyts                            http://www.patthoyts.tk/
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Re: Windows 7 and git-gui/gitk language

[Pat Thoyts]

Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

More follow-up -- it is actually the registry package missing from the
msysGit version of tcl which causes the fault. msysGit issue 283 is
now raised for this.
-- 
Pat Thoyts                            http://www.patthoyts.tk/
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