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

[Alexandre Neto]

Hi marco,

I am aware of that. My main concern is the users that aren't even aware
that they can customize QGIS language without reinstalling it and get stuck
with a poor-quality translation.
If on top of that the translation changes too much from one version to
another, people can get very frustrated and lost and blame it on the QGIS
project. That's what I wanted to avoid.
If people understand where the translations came from, and that there is a
place where they can actually improve it, maybe they get involved...
maybe...

Alex

Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> escreveu no dia quinta, 24/03/2022 à(s)
15:37:

> Hi Alexandre,
>
> you easily could start QGIS with --lang option to force a specific
> language. E.g. $ qgis --lang en_US
> On Windows you have to add this to the qgis.bat file, as on Windows qgis
> is not startetd by executing a *.exe directly
>
> Best regards
> Marco
>
> Am 24.03.22 um 12:11 schrieb Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer:
> > 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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