Inkscape

menu bar is in turkish

Asked by Jesse Ahmann

I installed inkscape, was working fine. Then one day opened it up to find the whole program is in turkish. At least I thinks it's turkish?
I tried reinstalling, same thing. What is going on???

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Best Aruna Hewapathirane (aruna-hewapathirane) said : 		#1

If you are using the 0.47 development snapshot, you can change it using a drop-down box in
Inkscape Preferences -> Interface. It requires a restart to take effect. Here are the instructions for older versions:

        Fist type locale -a in the console
        to find out, which locale settings are supported on your system and how they were written.

        export LANGUAGE="C" in the commandline switches to the default language (English).
        export LANGUAGE="de_DE.utf-8" changes the language to german.
        This command works only temporary. After a system restart the original locale is active. The used locale has to be
        installed with inkscape on your computer (else, Inkscape falls back to the default language).

        Add a new locale (need root permissions):

 Add an entry to /etc/locale.gen:

 hu_HU ISO-8859-2
 en_US ISO-8859-1

 > locale-gen
 > update-locale

You will find a lot of useful information here in the Inkscape wiki:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_change_Inkscape.27s_interface_language.3F

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Jesse Ahmann (jesseahmann) said : 		#2

The problem is now fixed after some random clicking through turkish menu items. I posted this question in "bugs" also. I got some great customer support. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/617079
Thank you for your answer...I've used a pc all my life until now, so I can only use the terminal console when given very specific instructions.

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#3

@Aruna - unfortunately your instructions for older versions do not apply to the packaged version of Inkscape on Mac OS X (only to Linux). Inkscape on OS X has a (hidden) launcher shell script inside the application package that reads OS X system preferences and tries to adjust $LANG according to those settings. This script is not intended to be edited by the user, and it doesn't inherit 'locale' settings the user enters in a terminal window.

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Aruna Hewapathirane (aruna-hewapathirane) said : 		#4

I am glad we were able to assist you Jesse and it IS very much a learning process my friend, there was a time roughly six months ago when I was actually scared of opening up a terminal :-)

Please try and experiment that is how you will learn, In the terminal you have the 'man' command - short form for manual. Please try to use it, was immensely helpful to me when I was starting out with the terminal.

More info here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

You will soon feel comfortable with a terminal and believe me Jesse once you get used to it you will wonder HOW you ever managed without one :-)

Hello Suv, I just assumed Jesse was using some version of linux, I should not have, I know.. :-( and thank you for sharing the Mac OS X fix I had no idea. Thank you.

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Jesse Ahmann (jesseahmann) said : 		#5

Aruna,
Thank you for your message, your link is related to the Linux platform...it's similar to mac, but how is that going to educate me on the Mac OS X?
Also, you mentioned the "man" command. Why do you think it's useful. I remember DOS for the PC and liked it. When windows got rid of it, I was frusterated.
Jesse