Wrong language shown

[DigiAngel]

Running Inkscape both stable and dev, the wrong language is show. This is using XQuartz on OS X 10.6.5. Wireshark doesn't show this same issue.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Can you provide more details: what is your normal menu language system-wide, what language does Inkscape use for the menus, and what are your settings in 'System Preferences > International > Language' for 'Order of sorted lists'?

Most likely same issue as
Bug #488120 “UI language changing gradually to Greek”
Bug #617079 “Turkish menu bar, I need English”

[DigiAngel (jlay)]

Normal language is English, only one language set for Systerm Prefs -> Language is English with the only item in the list as English. As for the language...I have no CLUE what this is, but I'll get a screenshot. Logs to show this though:

Dec 25 19:04:45 iMac [0x0-0x2d02d].org.inkscape.Inkscape[1439]: Setting Language: tr_TR.UTF-8

[su_v (suv-lp)]

>Normal language is English, only one language set
> for Systerm Prefs -> Language is English with the
> only item in the list as English

Could you attach a screenshot of the 'International' prefs pane too? As asked, the more relevant setting normally is the one for 'Order of sorted lists', not the list of (preferred) languages on the left.

> Setting Language: tr_TR.UTF-8
This means, that Inkscape's launch script picks up "Turkish" from your system, for whatever reason...

[DigiAngel (jlay)]

There is no "International" prefs pane tool, but I do have "Language & Text"...including that now. I did notice that Wireshark, my only other app that uses X/XQuartz, doesn't set a language. Screenshot enclosed.

[DigiAngel (jlay)]

I think my issue may be like Bug #617079, which sounds a lot like mine. I had rebooted my machine a couple times, when I tried it again, lo and behold it's English...no clue why. I have now hard set the the Inkscape prefs to English. Logs show:

Dec 26 19:56:04 iMac [0x0-0x28028].org.inkscape.Inkscape[754]: Setting Language: .UTF-8

Really weird..

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thanks for further investigating and reporting back!

> my issue may be like Bug #617079, which sounds a lot like mine

I will link your report as duplicate to Bug #617079, to keep any further discussion in one place. Unfortunately the cause for these unexpected language changes isn't known yet. The only way I could simulate such an effect on my system (10.5.8) - by changing the order for sorted lists - doesn't seem to be related. Somehow there must be a different (temporary ?) setting that causes the launch script to detect a different preferred language setting (maybe due to changes to files like ~/.CFUserTextEncoding or ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist - though that would not explain why rebooting finally solves the issue…).

Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think the issues need to be tracked and solved separately.