Xournalpp: how to change GUI language?

[andrewchenshx]

Affects versions :

• OS: [Windows 7 64bit]
• Version of Xournal++ [1.0.12]

Describe the bug
after launching this app, i found some menus were displayed as English, while some were Chinese.
how can i select a language for displaying the GUI elements.

[LittleHuba]

The parts in english are actually just missing translations for your language. Take a look at the Shoutout in the Readme!

To disable the translations you can prepend your call to start xournalpp with LANG=en_US.
See this document for more information.

[LittleHuba]

Ahh sorry just saw you are on Windows. There it is not as easy as on Linux...
You'll have to take a look at the installation directory. There should somewhere be *.go files with the country codes as filenames. Just delete or rename your translation file. That should make gettext fallback to the english version.

[andrewchenshx]

@LittleHuba , the following script works for me.

set LANG=en_US
thepath\to\xournalpp.exe

[ghost]

For anyone still searching in 2020:

I didn't find any *.go files and also had no idea how to use the script, but deleting the folder path\to\install\Xournal++\share\locale\<country code> did the job for me.

Sidenote: There really should be a setting for the locale..

[banan314]

I deleted all folders in path\to\install\Xournal++\share\locale and it worked.