[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Selecting Interface language (#1757)

nomadbyte notifications at xxxxx
Sun Apr 26 13:23:33 UTC 2020


Yep, this could be an entry in FAQ or Manual.

Something like "How to change Geany's UI language from OS default?". This would cover both Windows and Linux/Unix-like systems. BTW, in case of Linux the approach is similar: Set the language env variable prior to launching Geany (could be LANG, LANGUAGE). For example, under Ubuntu:

        LANGUAGE=en geany

This could be added to launcher (.desktop) file `Exec` line too.

In general, indeed this _is_ a special case, since the whole UI aspect is usually driven by OS and meant to be transparent to user. It's just some Windows-targetting programs, especially free editors and tools, had this sort of UI language menu, thus setting up some user expectations about selectively changing language for a given program.  Can one do this with MS Office or Visual Studio? .... Nope, not without some workarounds. Of course, Geany is not localized to the same extent, but the approach is the same.

By the way, I faced this question when trying to test my updates to Geany's Ukrainian localization on a system set to English locale, otherwise it had quite a few missing strings. 

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