After install in RTL language, and then switch to LTR language, menus are still RTL

[Hachmann]

"My system is in hebrew, but I don't want Inkscape menus to be displayed in hebrew, as it decided to do after installation.
I changed it in preferences to english, but it still showing all the menus from right to left.

I did restart the program, it changed the display language from hebrew to english, but all the menus were in english from right to left (File, Edit, etc)

Right now I solved it by uninstalling and re-installing using the "custom" installation and opting out for all translations, so this time it installed it totally in english.

It's a work around but the default "typical" installation shouldn't cause such troubles."

Corresponding user question here: https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/268885

Edit: user reports that there had been a similar problem with the Gimp.

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Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64bit
Inkscape 0.91, 64bit, msi installer

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Please add information about OS/platform and Inkscape version to the bug description, thank you.

[TuxSax (zivley)]

Here are my environment details per your request.
Inkscape 0.91 running on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64bit.

Let me know if you need additional information.

Thanks,
Ziv

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Which installer did you use for Inkscape 0.91 on Windows?
- arch: 32bit or 64bit
- type: msi or exe

[TuxSax (zivley)]

I said it was 64bit.

I used the MSI installer.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thank you for sharing the details.

On 2015-07-06 12:05 (+0200), TuxSax wrote:
> I said it was 64bit.

You said Windows 7 was 64bit, nothing about Inkscape (32bit Inkscape builds run ok on Windows 64bit, and there are reasons some users prefer to use Inkscape's 32bit builds for Windows)

[TuxSax (zivley)]

OK, Sorry if it wasn't clear enough.
I always prefer to use 64bit when available

[Chaim Gorbov (gchaimke)]

I have same problem and don't wont to reinstall, simply open inkscape-> shift+ctrl+p-> interface-> language(en-GB). Close program and go to C:\Program Files\Inkscape\locale\ delete languages that you don't need, i have just one folder en_GB. Start Inkscape regularly.

[TuxSax (zivley)]

Nice workaround hack, however, the bug should still be addressed and eventually fixed.
Thanks for sharing!

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

In a recently fixed issue (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/459914), setting the LANG environment variable was a possible workaround. I wonder if it could fix the issue here.

[MyFullName (yomama98)]

This issue is known since 0.42 at least so don't get your hopes high about a fix.
Download the installation file, unzip it (7zip), then locate Inkscape-xx>Share>Locale. Delete everything you don't want from there. Now you have a portable version of Inkscape that runs in the language of your choice.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

With migration of bugs to Gitlab, closing this bug to track it over at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/25

From there, the issue seems to be an upstream design decision, to use the system's locale to set the text direction https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/25#note_139973249

It was also suggested to set LANG to override it (like in #10)

[ukiocsmo (ukiocsmo)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1471575/comments/8

That's right, thank you