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Thursday, April 16, 2009

how to change gimp language setting

After changing some regional and language settings in my vista to Japanese, if I run gimp, it displays unreadable character instead of English. I found this url is very helpful to change the language of gimp (in XP, Linux, and MacOSX):
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-fire-up.html#gimp-concepts-running-language

For vista, it is very similar with XP, example is to use English (en):
  1. go to control panel, system, advanced system settings
  2. click Environment variables..
  3. add new environment variable (click New...):
    variable name: LANG
    variable value: en
  4. Ok. Finish.

That's all :)
Posted by chn at Thursday, April 16, 2009
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30 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 3, 2009 at 5:13 AM

    Thank's !! That worked perfectly !

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  2. AnonymousAugust 10, 2009 at 5:43 PM

    MAN It's Working! You're my hero! .p

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  3. AnonymousAugust 21, 2009 at 11:56 PM

    You are a god! thanks!

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM

    Thanks!! That worked..I'm so happy :)

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  5. AnonymousOctober 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM

    Perfect! Thanks a lot! (Same steps apply to Windows 7)

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  6. AnonymousDecember 13, 2009 at 2:00 AM

    Brilliant.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2010 at 8:16 PM

    yesssssssss..... thank you :) :)

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  8. AnonymousMarch 17, 2010 at 1:54 AM

    yesss it worked ! thank you so much, you saved me ! :]

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  9. AnonymousMarch 24, 2010 at 7:25 PM

    But frankly, this is really stupid. People put in thousands of hours to develop GIMP. The first thing I got into problem with was totally fucked up language. Yes, I'm from Sweden, but most people I know run English as standard language for software tools, just to be compatible with the rest of the world. We really hate when people "automate" stuff. Back to Gimp, how hard would it be to have a language setting in the settings dialogue? They have settings for tons of things that a "purist" would opt for environment variables. No no no, not the Gimpy, I think I'll go back to PhotoShop immediately. Gimp is far behind real commercial software.

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  10. AnonymousMarch 28, 2010 at 7:08 AM

    THANK YOU! this helped alot!

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  11. AnonymousMay 5, 2010 at 3:50 AM

    Thanks SO much! It worked like a charm.

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  12. AnonymousJune 22, 2010 at 11:34 PM

    This youtube video will show you how if you can't read the operating system language you're running GIMP on.

    iE7nhe9k8As

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  13. AnonymousJuly 23, 2010 at 5:13 PM

    Thanks a lot :)

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  14. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM

    Thank you, it worked perfectly on my win 7!

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  15. AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 1:29 AM

    Worked, thanks!

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  16. AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM

    It's amazing how long have I managed without trying to fix this and with everything RL instead of LR.

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  17. AnonymousDecember 1, 2010 at 12:59 PM

    I Fking Love You !!!
    You helped me a LOT !!!

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  18. UnknownFebruary 6, 2011 at 9:08 PM

    Thanks a lot!

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  19. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 7:02 AM

    Thank you very much. That worked perfectly. You're a star.

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  20. thanks you girl lolMay 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM

    Thxs i was confused at first but i get it now ty!

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  21. AnonymousMay 24, 2011 at 4:21 AM

    WHOA! Thank you!!

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  22. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2011 at 6:18 PM

    thank you , works perfect

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  23. AnonymousOctober 7, 2011 at 4:55 AM

    Finaly!!
    I have tried to install again...did not work.
    Try to modify the GTK environment...did not work.
    And this simple environment variable works like a charme.
    Thank you!!!!

    Dom

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  24. habanerochillyOctober 14, 2011 at 4:51 AM

    not working...
    maybe i have a different interface
    no controll panel (just preferences)
    no advanced system settings
    there is indeed a enviroment tab, but no button in there... strange :(

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  25. AnonymousOctober 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM

    YES!!!! Thank you so much I finally solved my problem with GIMP. You are a huge help

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  26. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 5:16 PM

    thank you soo much
    from Japan

    Alseny

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  27. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2012 at 12:42 AM

    Thanks!!

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  28. AnonymousApril 16, 2012 at 12:08 AM

    Thanks :^), MM

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  29. iiMateJune 15, 2012 at 3:45 PM

    Thank you, it can change from swedish to english !!!

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  30. AnonymousJuly 4, 2012 at 4:34 AM

    Fixed my right-to-left problems! Thanks!

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