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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/pgram1/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/pgram1">@pgram1</a> did you read the comment <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757#issuecomment-362868750" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1757/hovercard">above</a> and also <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757#issuecomment-426463375" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1757/hovercard">this</a> one.</p>
<p>If you have a solution that does not involve environment variables please contribute it, but please don't just keep demanding "somebody" does it for you.</p>
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<p>As per <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="293723386" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1757/hovercard?comment_id=362858124&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757#issuecomment-362858124">#1757 (comment)</a>, I created a bat script that batch renames locale folders, as Geany seems to fallback to LANG=en if it finds no locale directories.</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-batchfile"><pre><span class="pl-k">@</span><span class="pl-k">Echo</span> <span class="pl-k">Off</span>

<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-k">REM</span> Run script with Administrator privileges </span>

<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-k">REM</span> Put the locale path here (typically "C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\share\locale")</span>
<span class="pl-k">CD</span> <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\share\locale<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>

<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-k">REM</span> This renames all locale folders except special stylings to foo-unused</span>
<span class="pl-k">FOR</span> /D <span class="pl-cce">%%</span>G in (<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>*<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>) DO <span class="pl-k">if</span> <span class="pl-k">not</span> <span class="pl-cce">%%</span>~nxG<span class="pl-k">==</span>en<span class="pl-k">@</span>boldquot <span class="pl-k">if</span> <span class="pl-k">not</span> <span class="pl-cce">%%</span>~nxG<span class="pl-k">==</span>en<span class="pl-k">@</span>quot <span class="pl-k">if</span> <span class="pl-k">not</span> <span class="pl-cce">%%</span>~nxG<span class="pl-k">==</span>en<span class="pl-k">@</span>shaw <span class="pl-k">Ren</span> <span class="pl-cce">%%</span>~nxG <span class="pl-cce">%%</span>~nxG-unused
<span class="pl-k">Echo</span> Locales are disabled.
<span class="pl-k">PAUSE</span>

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<p>Quite hacky but I guess it works...</p>

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