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Darktable language inexplicably changed itself to Czech

The darktable FAQ says it uses the OS's language.. but my OS's language is English. So where could it be getting the idea it should be Czech? It was in English when I first installed it and I haven't done anything new or Czechy since.

More importantly: How do I set the language of Darktable to English from Ubuntu? All the instructions I can find are for Windows.

Thank you

[edit: using Fossa]

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
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  • Please edit you question and show the output of the locale terminal command.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Jul 11, 2023 at 3:38
  • Hmm.. Ok. As you say, nothing there which indicates Czech. I would guess that there is a display language setting in the darktable application which overrides the locale. If you don't find that, I wonder if it makes a difference if you start it with: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 darktable (The difference compared to the workaround in your answer is that en_US.UTF-8 is the correct locale name.)
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Jul 16, 2023 at 0:38
  • Good idea! unfortunately when I try that it opens in Czech again. It's still opening in Czech by default when I open it normally, but when I use the workaround I posted below that one session opens in English.
    – Rabbit
    Commented Jul 16, 2023 at 21:43
  • Then I suppose the proper way is that you look for a language setting in the application. Or just keep using the workaround, but my objections to it still stand. ;)
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Jul 16, 2023 at 22:15
  • Believe it or not, looking for a language setting in the application was the very first thing I tried and it did not work.
    – Rabbit
    Commented Sep 10, 2023 at 13:31

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
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OK I found something that worked for me, here we go:

LANG=<language_code> && darktable

Replace <language_code> with the desired language code. For English:

LANG=en_US && darktable

I would still appreciate input on what in my OS is telling programs they shouldn't be in English (this happened to me before with Portuguese!)

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  • en_US has either not been generated on your system, in which case LANG=en_US is effectively the same as LANG=C. Or it has been generated, in which case LANG=en_US may enable latin1 encoding, which is probably not your intention. So I find the answer misleading to users, and downvoted it. It would fit better as workaround as part of the question, so you may want to move it there.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Jul 11, 2023 at 7:31
  • Darktable was in Czech and then I ran that and now it's in English, and I couldn't find any other solution anywhere.. and my OS is in UK English. Are you saying that "LANG=C && darktable" would be better?
    – Rabbit
    Commented Jul 11, 2023 at 9:57
  • No, it would probably be just as bad. Better to figure out the explanation. I asked for additional info with that purpose directly under your question.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Jul 11, 2023 at 10:42
  • Thanks, done. Nothing about cz in there, Portuguese and English (The clock for Ireland was wrong when I installed the OS so I had to set it to Lisbon time)
    – Rabbit
    Commented Jul 13, 2023 at 9:54

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