On 7 April 2017 at 04:51, Andrew Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> This would normally be handled at the system level in linux. (and I
> suspect windows as well, but I've never used any gnome stuff there.)
> Copying just meld's translation files isn't sufficient, as meld is depends
> on translations from the rest of the gnome system as well.
>
> On linux you would typically go through the system settings/control panel
> (`gnome-language-selector` or something like that) options for
> language/locale to install and set what language you want to use
> system-wide, and gnome applications like meld will automatically pick that
> up and use the correct translations.
>
> You can also override the locale for a specific application via the
> environment, if you want a particular app to use a different language than
> the rest of the system. In that case you need to make sure the language
> files are already installed, though...you'd need at least the
> `language-pack-gnome-de` package and any dependencies, maybe some others
> too. Then you could launch meld in german like:
> LANG=de_DE.utf8 meld &
>

In addition to Andrew's suggestions above, last I checked our UI
translations simply don't work on Windows, I'm sorry. I can't remember the
exact issue, but I think it was something to do with us missing DLLs and
not having appropriate fallback code.

cheers,
Kai
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