Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Gimp: Changing language back to english

I do not know why, but one day my Gimp 2.2.10 on my Mac X changed its language from English to Japaneses. I do not know how it happened, but it happened.


As usually in such cases I did a little of web searching and I found some solutions. First proposed solution was to set LANG environment variable to 'en'. Of course I tried it, and of course it did not work.

Second solution that fortunately worked was to delete folder containing Japanese language in Gimp's directory. Hence, I deleted folder ja from:

/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/locale

After restarting Gimp I had it finally in English.

In conclusion, as far as my case is considered the solution to Gimp language problems is to delete given lang folder from Gimp.app directory.