gpg command output language???

[Bo Berglund]

When I run the "gpg2 -h" command I get a result that is a mixture of
English and Swedish words, which does not make a lot of sense.

I am running Windows XP-Pro *English* version but because I am in
Sweden I use the Swedish keyboard.
I DON'T want to have anything fed back from programs like gpg in
Swedish, though....
It beats me why a program like gpg should detect the keyboard type and
change its language like this, language setting should be a volontary
change by the user always! Just think how good it would be for an
English speaking user to try and use a PC that happened to be set for
say a Slovenian keyboard. Not possible to understand the output,
right?

So how can I change gpg such that it sends its responses in English
only? I have checked gpg.conf, but there is no language setting there.

[Paul Richard Ramer]

Post by Bo Berglund
It beats me why a program like gpg should detect the keyboard type and
change its language like this, language setting should be a volontary
change by the user always! Just think how good it would be for an
English speaking user to try and use a PC that happened to be set for
say a Slovenian keyboard. Not possible to understand the output,
right?
So how can I change gpg such that it sends its responses in English
only? I have checked gpg.conf, but there is no language setting there.

The GPG man page gives the following information:

Operation is further controlled by a few environment variables:
[...]

LANGUAGE
Apart from its use by GNU, it is used in the W32 version to
override the language selection done through the Registry. If
used and set to a valid and available language name (langid),
the file with the translation is loaded from
gpgdir/gnupg.nls/langid.mo. Here gpgdir is the directory out of
which the gpg binary has been loaded. If it can't be loaded the
Registry is tried and as last resort the native Windows locale
system is used.


-Paul

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:47:36 -0800, Paul Richard Ramer

Post by Paul Richard Ramer

Post by Bo Berglund
It beats me why a program like gpg should detect the keyboard type and
change its language like this, language setting should be a volontary
change by the user always! Just think how good it would be for an
English speaking user to try and use a PC that happened to be set for
say a Slovenian keyboard. Not possible to understand the output,
right?
So how can I change gpg such that it sends its responses in English
only? I have checked gpg.conf, but there is no language setting there.

How do you locate the "GPG man page"??

Post by Paul Richard Ramer
[...]
LANGUAGE
Apart from its use by GNU, it is used in the W32 version to
override the language selection done through the Registry. If
used and set to a valid and available language name (langid),
the file with the translation is loaded from
gpgdir/gnupg.nls/langid.mo. Here gpgdir is the directory out of
which the gpg binary has been loaded. If it can't be loaded the
Registry is tried and as last resort the native Windows locale
system is used.

Sounds like a very strange way to do this, an environment variable
that is not even named with reference to GPG can affect all
applications on the PC....
A more appropriate way would have been to have this entered in the
conf file or at least named GPG_LANGUAGE instead of the generic name
it now has...

Additionally: What am I supposed to enter as "langid" in such an
environment variable? "ENGLISH", "EN", "409" or what?

[Ingo Klöcker]

Post by Bo Berglund
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:47:36 -0800, Paul Richard Ramer

Post by Paul Richard Ramer

Post by Bo Berglund
It beats me why a program like gpg should detect the keyboard type
and change its language like this, language setting should be a
volontary change by the user always! Just think how good it would
be for an English speaking user to try and use a PC that happened
to be set for say a Slovenian keyboard. Not possible to
understand the output, right?
So how can I change gpg such that it sends its responses in
English only? I have checked gpg.conf, but there is no language
setting there.

How do you locate the "GPG man page"??

I don't know how to do this on Windows, but you can always try Google.
The second hit for "GPG man page" is what you are looking for.

Post by Bo Berglund

Post by Paul Richard Ramer
[...]
LANGUAGE
Apart from its use by GNU, it is used in the W32 version to
override the language selection done through the Registry.
If used and set to a valid and available language name
(langid), the file with the translation is loaded from
gpgdir/gnupg.nls/langid.mo. Here gpgdir is the directory
out of which the gpg binary has been loaded. If it can't
be loaded the Registry is tried and as last resort the
native Windows locale system is used.

Sounds like a very strange way to do this, an environment variable
that is not even named with reference to GPG can affect all
applications on the PC....

Well, that's the point of this environment variable. It is supposed to
be recognized by all applications. If you only want this variable to
affect gpg then write a simple script which sets the variable and then
calls gpg.

Post by Bo Berglund
A more appropriate way would have been to have this entered in the
conf file or at least named GPG_LANGUAGE instead of the generic name
it now has...
Additionally: What am I supposed to enter as "langid" in such an
environment variable? "ENGLISH", "EN", "409" or what?

Try "C". This should give you untranslated (and thus English) messages.


Regards,
Ingo
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[MFPA]

Hi


On Sunday 16 January 2011 at 9:19:38 AM, in

Post by Bo Berglund
How do you locate the "GPG man page"??

I'm using GnuPG 1.4.x, not 2.x, and my copy of "GPG man page" is the
text file called "gpg.man" that lives in the "DOC" folder under my
GnuPG program directory.


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MFPA mailto:expires2011 at ymail.com

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[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:21:07 +0100, Ingo Kl?cker <kloecker at kde.org>

Post by Ingo Klöcker

Post by Bo Berglund
Additionally: What am I supposed to enter as "langid" in such an
environment variable? "ENGLISH", "EN", "409" or what?

Try "C". This should give you untranslated (and thus English) messages.

Did not work at all...

I set the environment variable to "C" and then ran gpg2 -h. Example of
output:

-s, --sign make a signature
--clearsign make a clear text signature
-b, --detach-sign skapa signatur i en separat fil
-e, --encrypt kryptera data

(Both English and Swedish...)
And later:

-v, --verbose utf?rlig
-n, --dry-run g?r inga Sndringar
-i, --interactive frsga innan ?verskrivning
--openpgp anvSnd strikt OpenPGP-beteende

Characters used for the Swedish umlauted chars ?????? are completely
wrong...

[Ingo Klöcker]

Post by Bo Berglund
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:21:07 +0100, Ingo Kl?cker <kloecker at kde.org>

Post by Ingo Klöcker

Post by Bo Berglund
Additionally: What am I supposed to enter as "langid" in such an
environment variable? "ENGLISH", "EN", "409" or what?

Try "C". This should give you untranslated (and thus English)
messages.

Did not work at all...

Hmm. Yeah. I should have read the text from the man page. It says
"[...] gpgdir/gnupg.nls/langid.mo. Here gpgdir is the directory out of
which the gpg binary has been loaded."

So you need to locate the directory gpgdir/gnupg.nls and look for
available *.mo files. If there does not seem to be a file for English
then try to guess the langid for English from the langids of the
available languages.


Regards,
Ingo
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[Werner Koch]

Post by Bo Berglund
I set the environment variable to "C" and then ran gpg2 -h. Example of

Use

set LC_MESSAGES=C

Post by Bo Berglund
Characters used for the Swedish umlauted chars ?????? are completely
wrong...

They are UTF-8 encoded. The console has problems to render them,
though.


Salam-Shalom,

Werner

[Benjamin Marwell]

Hi there,

LANG=C is always ANSII. For UTF-8 use en_EN.UTF-8.

Regards.

Post by Werner Koch

Post by Bo Berglund
I set the environment variable to "C" and then ran gpg2 -h. Example of

Use
set LC_MESSAGES=C

Post by Bo Berglund
Characters used for the Swedish umlauted chars ?????? are completely
wrong...

They are UTF-8 encoded. ?The console has problems to render them,
though.
Salam-Shalom,
? Werner
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[Werner Koch]

Post by Benjamin Marwell
LANG=C is always ANSII. For UTF-8 use en_EN.UTF-8.

Sorry, we are talking about GnuPG's Windows port. The locale feature
under Windows is very different from what we all known. GnuPG uses its
own gettext implementation (common/w32-gettext.c) and if you check this
you will see that LC_MESSAGES is what we are looking for.


Salam-Shalom,

Werner

[Bo Berglund]

Post by Werner Koch

Post by Bo Berglund
I set the environment variable to "C" and then ran gpg2 -h. Example of

Use
set LC_MESSAGES=C

Yes! This did the trick. Now the language is indeed English.
Both on Win7 and WinXP.

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:39:14 +0000, MFPA <expires2011 at ymail.com>

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Hi
On Sunday 16 January 2011 at 9:19:38 AM, in

Post by Bo Berglund
How do you locate the "GPG man page"??

I'm using GnuPG 1.4.x, not 2.x, and my copy of "GPG man page" is the
text file called "gpg.man" that lives in the "DOC" folder under my
GnuPG program directory.

I have installed GPG2 as part of Gpg4Win 2.0.4 and there are no traces
at all of any doc folder or files....

[Peter Lebbing]

Post by Bo Berglund
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:39:14 +0000, MFPA <expires2011 at ymail.com>

Post by MFPA
I'm using GnuPG 1.4.x, not 2.x, and my copy of "GPG man page" is the
text file called "gpg.man" that lives in the "DOC" folder under my
GnuPG program directory.

I have installed GPG2 as part of Gpg4Win 2.0.4 and there are no traces
at all of any doc folder or files....

The manual at [1] is, as far as I can see at a glance, largely the same as the
gpg2 man page. A lot of your questions so far could have been answered by
reading that manual.

Also, you could fetch and unpack the source for GnuPG. It is bound to contain a
lot of documentation for you as the developer of a new frontend, although a lot
of the documentation will be there only in source format, not as the man pages
or HTML files that would be generated from that source format.

Peter.

[1] <http://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG.html>