Inkscape

Command line launch results in Spanish UI

Asked by Steve Ylvisaker

Normally when I launch Inkscape it comes up with the UI in English. However, when I start it via the command line the UI appears in Spanish. Is there a way, at the command line, to tell the UI to appear in English?

Steve

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Steve Ylvisaker (sylvisaker) said : 		#1

Actually - it looks like the UI is switching to match the language of the text labels in the graphic. Nice feature but I would like to turn it off for my purpose.

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Oleg Koptev (koptev-oleg) said : 		#2

Hello Steve.

Please try the next workaround - *http://tinyurl.com/negdqv

*Cheerz, Oleg*
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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#3

depends on your OS ;-)

Inkscape respects the value of the environment variable $LANG or more general the locale settings of the shell it is launched from (normally it respects the system locale - on unix-like systems).

I have no detailed knowledge about windows systems, but there is an item in the FAQ about
a) setting $LANG in a batch file that launches Inkscape ('@set LANG=en_US'), or
b) adding $LANG to the System Control Panel
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_change_Inkscape.27s_interface_language.3F>

In your case you would need to set LANG="en_US" before launching Inkscape...

hth, ~suv

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#4

oops - sorry Oleg, didn't notice you had already answered while I still was looking up the link... ;-)

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Oleg Koptev (koptev-oleg) said : 		#5

hola ~suv :) I was a bit faster ;)

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Oleg Koptev (koptev-oleg) said : 		#6

ouch...

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Best su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#7

?

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Oleg Koptev (koptev-oleg) said : 		#8

'ouch' 'cause second time you was faster :)

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Steve Ylvisaker (sylvisaker) said : 		#9

Thanks - renaming the language folders in the locale directory seems to have done the trick