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

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Could we not have some means to attach a quality value to each language (eg
at the very least % translated), and only force English on poorly
translated languages? I feel forcing English by default would be a
disservice to the part of the community that spends hours to translate QGIS.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 18:32 Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Alessandro,
>
> Well, the option on first launch would be a much bettter solution. But
> probably more complicated. Any idea of how much man/hours would be needed
> to implement it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
> A quinta, 24/03/2022, 11:21, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> 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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>>
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