On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:47:36 -0800, Paul Richard Ramer <free10...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 01/15/2011 11:34 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: >> It beats me why a program like gpg should detect the keyboard type and >> change its language like this, language setting should be a volontary >> change by the user always! Just think how good it would be for an >> English speaking user to try and use a PC that happened to be set for >> say a Slovenian keyboard. Not possible to understand the output, >> right? >> >> So how can I change gpg such that it sends its responses in English >> only? I have checked gpg.conf, but there is no language setting there. > >The GPG man page gives the following information: How do you locate the "GPG man page"?? > Operation is further controlled by a few environment variables: > [...] > > LANGUAGE > Apart from its use by GNU, it is used in the W32 version to > override the language selection done through the Registry. If > used and set to a valid and available language name (langid), > the file with the translation is loaded from > gpgdir/gnupg.nls/langid.mo. Here gpgdir is the directory out of > which the gpg binary has been loaded. If it can't be loaded the > Registry is tried and as last resort the native Windows locale > system is used. > Sounds like a very strange way to do this, an environment variable that is not even named with reference to GPG can affect all applications on the PC.... A more appropriate way would have been to have this entered in the conf file or at least named GPG_LANGUAGE instead of the generic name it now has... Additionally: What am I supposed to enter as "langid" in such an environment variable? "ENGLISH", "EN", "409" or what? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
