[Question]: How do I change the user interface language?

[coolvitto]

Where do I place the downloaded Japanese language files (codelite.mo, codelite.po)?
Even if I copy them to the installation folder and check "Enable localization" on the settings page, I cannot change the UI language.

[Jarod42]

You have to set some environment variable IIRC: Gettext#Running:
LC_MESSAGES or LANGUAGE.

[coolvitto]

set LANGUAGE=ja_JP
set LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8
set LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP
I tried all of these but I can't change it.

Where do I copy codelite.mo and codelite.po?

[Jarod42]

Which platform do you use?

For *NIX, files should already be present in usr/share/locale.

Files (as ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/codelite.mo) are looked up depending on platform in:

• usr/share/locale
• usr/local/share/locale
• $(CodeliteInstallDir)/share/locale
• $(CodeliteInstallDir)/locale

[coolvitto]

Solved
thanks

[eranif]

On Windows, you will need to re-compile CodeLite. The icon is embedded in the .rc file:

https://github.com/eranif/codelite/blob/master/LiteEditor/code_parser.rc#L2