[QGIS-Developer] Override System Locale user interface with American English by Default?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi Alexandre,

it seems reasonable to me but I'd suggest adding a first-time notice and an
option for the user to actually set the system locale, maybe only for the
first QGIS launch.


On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:12 PM Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have raised this before, but I wanted to ask for it again. Currently,
> QGIS default is not to Override System Locale and use the system's locale
> for User interface.
>
> If the system locale language happens to have good and reliable
> translations, this works well, but when the language is incomplete or
> poorly translated, this IMHO poses a problem.
>
> The European Portuguese translation is quite poor, with many errors and
> bad translations. In the end it is sometimes hard to work with the GUI in
> PT_pt. To me the bad thing is it looks bad on the project reputation and
> people (users) read it as a symptom of bad quality software, which is not
> the case.
>
> So, I wanted to suggest if we could have American english as the default
> for the GUI? Would this  be reasonable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexandre Neto
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