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Inkscapes menues are in Danish. I want English. How?

Asked by Berthe Willumsen

I downloaded Inkscape on my Mac and on the Parallels Windows partition. In the PC I was asked to chose language. In Mac OSX, the language in the menus is Danish - which I hate (although a Dane). I cannot find where to change it? I can't even find preferences - but I might not recognize it if it is in Danish....'Foretrukne'? Indstillinger?

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Best su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

Please check the setting in 'Language & Text > Language > Order for sorted text': in Inkscape, it might override the preferred language setting for the menus.

If the order of sorted lists is not 'Danish', this seems the same issue reported by several users - those that provided feedback told that the language setting reported from the OS X system to Inkscape returned to the expected default after one or more reboots/logins.

From what information has been provided it is unclear but apparently an issue outside of Inkscape where temporarily the OS X system preferences have changed (possibly due to installing some other applications).

Related reports:
Bug #694315 “Wrong language shown”
Bug #617079 “Turkish menu bar, I need English”
Bug #488120 “UI language changing gradually to Greek”

If for whatever reason the default doesn't return after reboot(s), you can override the system default language setting inside Inkscape in 'File > Inkscape preferences > Interface > Language' (in Dansk: Fil > Inkscape-indstillinger > Interface > Language') - you can also use the keyboard shortcut 'Shift+Ctrl+P' to open the preferences window.

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Berthe Willumsen (bmw) said : 		#2

In SysPrefs I had/have *English' in 'Language & Text > Language > Order for sorted lists' (no sorted text).
I will quit a few times, reboot and see what happens and report back to close here.
- And I have managed to use your instructions to find the language setting - interestingly, the text in the Interface-dialog is English.... Others also, though 'Trin's has Danish.

Thanks for prompt suggestions.
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Berthe Willumsen (bmw) said : 		#3

I how have English and am happy. However, since I happened to leave the language setting in Interface > Language as English, it was not so surprising that it was English after a restart (also of X11).
I changed it back to 'system default', and it remains English after yet another restart (also X11), so my problem is solved.
- but no info as to reboots for forcing it to see the system default. Weird that it saw any connection to Denmark at all?....
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Berthe Willumsen (bmw) said : 		#4

Thanks ~suv, that solved my question.