Change language in Ardour 7

[woozl.1986]

It’s possible to change the language in ardour 7 in german?

[HarryR]

I compiled/built it with the same options I used in 6.9.
No german language, it’s all in English.
System : Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 5.19.0-8.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC liquorix 5.19-8ubuntu1~focal (2022-09 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[woozl.1986]

I think i have it now… It’s the po folder in gtk2_ardour. I replaced them with de po folder from ardour 6.9 and now it works. But I think that the translations are not complete in Ardour 7 with his new features

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Odd. there should be no need for that.

I just tested it here with the official binary, and it works just fine:

~$ LANG=de_DE.UTF8 Ardour7 
Ardour7.0.0 (kompiliert mit Version 7.0 und GCC Version 6.3.0 20170516)
Ardour: [INFO]: Ihre Systemkonfiguration limitiert Ardour auf 1048576 geöffnete Dateien
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade Systemkonfigurationsdatei /opt/Ardour-7.0.0/etc/system_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade Benutzerkonfiguration /home/rgareus/.config/ardour7/config
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU vendor: GenuineIntel
Ardour: [INFO]: AVX-capable processor
Ardour: [INFO]: AVX with FMA capable processor
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10610U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Ardour: [INFO]: Using AVX and FMA optimized routines
Ardour: [INFO]: Setze CPU DMA Latenz auf 2 usec
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade Plugin-Metadatendatei /opt/Ardour-7.0.0/share/plugin_metadata/plugin_tags
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade Plugin-Statistik Datei /home/rgareus/.config/ardour7/plugin_metadata/plugin_stats
Kann die SIGPIPE Fehlerbehandlung nicht installieren
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade voreingestellte UI-Konfigurationsdatei /opt/Ardour-7.0.0/etc/default_ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade benutzerdefinierte UI-Konfigurationsdatei /home/rgareus/.config/ardour7/ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Lade 454 MIDI Patches von /opt/Ardour-7.0.0/share/patchfiles

Since my system’s default language is not German, I had to set set LANG and also make sure the locale is available in /etc/locale.gen.

[woozl.1986]

Hmm, i don’t know. I tried a couple of times, and never worked. But also on @HarryR os didn’t worked. The old po folder works now

[HarryR]

To help me in my debugging:
where should *.po *.mo be installed ?
In Ardour6 my prefix was /usr/local
In Ardour7 my prefix was /opt/ardour-7.0

Build directory (/opt/make/Ardour-7.0.0/gtk2_ardour/po) :
harry@TheQuietOne:/opt/make/Ardour-7.0.0/gtk2_ardour/po$ ls -1
cs.mo
cs.po
cs.po~
de.po
…
and so on

[HarryR]

Starting ardev from build dir:

Partly german partly English.
After that everything is in English

[woozl.1986]

1. you download the source code and unzip the package
2. you replace the “po” folder from ardour 6.9 to ardour 7
3. compile it

[HarryR]

Bringing this thread to a “correct” end.
The answer is, that there was a (now fixed) bug in german translation file.
Best regards