Re: Some applications display all text in Russian

[Ryan Schmidt]

On 19 apr 2020, at 17:03, Davide Liessi wrote:

> I have just installed GPXSee and GPXLab on macOS 10.13.
> Both are based on Qt5 and both show all menus and texts in Russian,
> while the system language is set to Italian.

I took a look at GPXSee and GPXLab. It looks like neither of them offer Italian 
translations. Perhaps you could work with the developers of those applications 
to create those translations.

When a translation is not available, I would have expected to see English text. 
That is what I see on my 10.13 system if I set the system language to Italian. 
I don't know why you are seeing Russian instead. Are you launching the 
applications by double-clicking them in the Finder or by some other method?


> Something similar happens with GnuCash as well, but only for some menu 
> entries.
> However, GnuCash is not Qt5-based.

Since gnucash is a command line application, its localization would be affected 
by the LANG environment variable. When I launch it from the command line with 
"LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 gnucash" I see the interface in Italian, I think. (I don't 
speak Italian.)

I glanced through the menu items and I see a few that look like they are still 
in English. That is what normally happens when individual terms have not been 
translated. You could work with the developers to help them translate any 
missing terms, or at least report to them the fact that these terms are 
untranslated.


> Does it happen to anyone else?
> Is there a way to force them to display texts in English if not in Italian?

In System Preferences: Language & Region, do you only have Italian listed? If 
so, try adding English as a backup language.

Re: Some applications display all text in Russian

[Davide Liessi]

Il giorno sab 25 apr 2020 alle ore 09:05 Ryan Schmidt
 ha scritto:
> Are you launching the applications by double-clicking them in the Finder or 
> by some other method?

Either double-clicking in the Finder or with Spotlight.

> Since gnucash is a command line application, its localization would be 
> affected by the LANG environment variable. When I launch it from the command 
> line with "LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 gnucash" I see the interface in Italian, I think. 
> (I don't speak Italian.)

I now realise that I did not install Gnucash via MacPorts, but I
downloaded it directly from their website, instead.
I don't recall why: probably at some point it didn't compile on my machine.
I'll try installing it again with MacPorts (and will report in case of
build failures).

> In System Preferences: Language & Region, do you only have Italian listed? If 
> so, try adding English as a backup language.

I have just checked and indeed the list is Italian, Russian, Czech and
English, in this order.
I moved English in the second position and indeed all untranslated
strings in Gnucash and GPXSee were in English, but strangely not in
GPXLab, which was still in Russian.
I removed Russian (and Czech) from the list of system languages,
logged out and in, and restarted the machine, but nothing changed in
GPXLab.
Then I deleted GPXLab's preference file
(~/Library/Preferences/com.bourgeoislab.GPXLab.plist), which however
didn't seem to contain information on the language, and now it is in
English.
I believe this is a bug in GPXLab and will report it upstream after
some more tests.

I don't know why I had any language other than Italian in the list of
system languages.
I have a Russian, a Czech and an English keyboard layout enabled,
besides the Italian one, but I don't recall adding any of them as
system language (that's why I didn't think of checking it).
I have just tried adding a keyboard layout for another language and in
fact that language was added to the list of system languages as well.

> I took a look at GPXSee and GPXLab. It looks like neither of them offer 
> Italian translations. Perhaps you could work with the developers of those 
> applications to create those translations.

> You could work with the developers to help them translate any missing terms, 
> or at least report to them the fact that these terms are untranslated.

I will surely do it soon for Gnucash, which I use daily.
I'll put the others on my to-do list.

Thanks for testing and for your suggestions.
Best wishes.
Davide