Synfig: "System language" localisation picks wrong language

[egladil]

Synfig version & platform: 1.2.0, macOS 10.12
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Issue description: When setting the localisation language of Synfig to "System language" ("Systemspråk") Synfigs loads the Swedish localisation instead of the English localisation.
Possible reasons might include my Swedish keyboard layout or my Swedish region settings (i.e. dates, numbers etc) in the OS. However, as my OS language is set to English the correct choice would be to use the English localisation in Synfig.

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[ghost]

I had the same issue where Synfig would launch in German though language preference was (at first)

English – Japan
German
Japanese

When I switched English to "US English" it would come up with the correct language. So it could be caused by only setting the locale to EN instead of giving a specific type like EN-US?

[rodolforg]

Could you please post the output of this command line: locale ?

[egladil]

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

[rodolforg]

And does it still not work?
What about version 1.3.11?
Try this commandline:
LANG=en synfigstudio or whatever path you need to call synfigstudio binary.

[egladil]

Still does not work. Same problem both on 1.2 and on 1.3.11.

Starting with LANG=en /Applications/SynfigStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/SynfigStudio makes it use english in the interface

This might also be of interest:

$ defaults read -g AppleLanguages
(
    "en-SE",
    "sv-SE",
    "ja-SE"
)

It feels like the program is incorrectly looking at the second half of the locale string (-SE) instead of the first half (en-)