Switch language

[Vinicius-Madeira]

Summary

After a few hours of unsuccessful attempts to change the language i'm here to ask for help.
I cloned the repo and tried to change a few things in the code to see if it'd work, but no progress so far.

Question

Is there any solution to change the App's language (even if I have to hardcode the language that I'll be using)?

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I'm not willing to change my system's language to anything other than english though.
Maybe I could try to add a language selector to the settings later, but for now a quick solution would be much appreciated.

[penguin-teal]

Sure! I've thought about making a language selector before, just haven't gotten around figuring out how (or if) to do it with GNU gettext.

The system language is measured using the LANG environment variable (plus some other locale variables). You can see your current locale with:

$ locale

(Note that you will see like 20 different variables print out, but changing the LANG variable will change them all)

To see all installed languages do:

$ locale -a

You'll see something like:

C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX
zh_CN.utf8

en_US.utf8 is UTF-8 American English and zh_CN.utf8 is UTF-8 Chinese. If you don't see the language you want you will have to install it which is distro-specific (your locale must appear here for this method to work).

The env program allows you to run a command with modified environment variables. So all you need to do is run ./nest-test.sh with a modified LANG variable. So this command here will run the test shell in the Chinese language. Switch zh_CN.utf8 to the language of your choice. If you use a language you do not have downloaded it will fallback to the C locale.

$ env LANG=zh_CN.utf8 ./nest-test.sh