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Language change issue, wrong locale is used and mess everything
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I'm running Windows 10 Pro

  • 10.0.19042 Build 19042

I'm living in France but use a main en-GB locale (With a UK-Layout Keyboard) and a Fall-Back fr-FR locale setup


If I try to run GPG (CLI or GUI, same issue) it keeps displaying a French interface, even if I delete the locale from the PC and reinstall GPG4Win, which is quite annoying for multiple reasons that I won't discuss here

The only workaround I was able to find is to rename/delete the french locale in those folders :

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\share\locale
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\bin\translations
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\gnupg\share\locale

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GnuPG 2.2.25 | GPG4Win 3.1.14

Event Timeline

stig124 created this task.Dec 17 2020, 8:59 PM
• aheinecke closed this task as Invalid.Dec 21 2020, 9:12 AM
• aheinecke added a subscriber: • aheinecke.

GnuPG uses the systems locale.

Create / Set the LANGUAGE environment variable to "en_GB".
In Kleopatra you can change the language of Kleopatra in the help menu.

There might be an improvement in gnupg to also respect a set display language under Windows but this is technically a value for microsoft apps and not a system value. The outlook plugin already does this and uses the Outlook display language.