On Jan 7, 2006, at 7:51 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
I've seen this kind of request before but I continue to be a little surprised by how many people want to use programs in English without changing the the rest of their system.
If you read his request, you'll see that his Windows XP *is* in English, but it seems that Inkscape is showing up in German instead of English. I think this is just another case where GTK+ apps do not interoperate properly with Win32 locale settings. It's a known issue, and mainly works correctly for those who tweak settings (environment variables, etc) on their Windows systems to mirror Unix practices.
So it would appear that the user *did* change the rest of their system, but Inkscape didn't properly follow.
If you are having problems with the translation please do file requests and suggestions as to how wording to be improved. If things are difficult to understand in other languages it might help indicated places where things could be made easier to understand, adn therefore easier to translate in a clear way.
In his post, he seems to have indicated a good reason to want to run Inkscape in English : He's running his OS in English and all the supportive material that he sees is also in English. I'd assume that includes magazine articles and tutorials.