[Gimp-user] Localize Gimp strings in English

Sven Neumann sven at gimp.org
Wed Jun 11 15:54:54 PDT 2008


Hi,

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:34 -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> I am seeing inconsistency in Gimp with how its strings/messages are 
> localized. Some buttons are in English, other buttons are in a language 
> I don't recognize. For instance, the Gimp tip of the day has three 
> buttons with these strings:
> 
> "Previous Tip" "Next Tip" "Sluit"
> 
> I don't know what "Sluit" means. :-(

Looks like you are using GIMP in the Afrikaans locale. There's no
afrikaans translation of GIMP, but the string in the toolkit are
translated.

> I've looked in Gimp's preferences for a way to set English as the 
> language for the interface, but I could find nothing there.

http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-fire-up.html#gimp-concepts-running-language


Sven




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