Re: Bug in Nmap 6.00: problems with changing the GUI language

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:27:56PM +0200, Martin Hinsch wrote:
> Dear Nmap-Dev-Team,
>
> I really love your little but powerful tool.
>
> Unfortunately I can not change the language in Nmap to English. I am
> using Nmap 6.00 (32bit installer) with Win7 SP1 (64bit) (German
> version).
>
> The user guide <http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-lang.html> states that I
> must change a Windows Environment Variable named LANG to "en" or
> "en_US". I did create this new variable. The effect is not visible in
> Nmap. The GUI is still in German. Thus the GUIs of other tools like
> VLC player and VirtualBox are now in English.
>
> There is a similar bug in your dev database
> <http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q4/731>. This bug seemed fixed in
> r16368 but now seems unresolved.

I'm guessing that the change in r16368 never really worked. I suppose
that setting LANG=en_US doesn't work, because we don't have en
translation files. Then the system looks next at the global locale, and
picks German.

A workaround is to rename the directory
C:\Program Files\Nmap\share\zenmap\locale\de.

One other thing to try is to set LANG=C. That might work, even if
LANG=en does not.

David Fifield
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