Can't manually switch the language to English on Windows

[HTD]

Describe the bug
Well, that's it. I'm Polish, SOME of my Windows locale (like time, date and number formats) are set to Polish, but the display language is set to English. Why? Because I'm bilingual and I don't quite understand some poor translations.

In LazyGit - the Polish translation is horrible. I can't find an option to switch it to English.

To Reproduce
Use Windows.
Set system locale except display language to Polish.
Enjoy random funny words on the screen ;)

Expected behavior
The program should be displayed in English because:

• my Display Language is set to English,
• the Polish translation is really bad and incomplete.
• at least it should be an option to set the language in a config file.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Lazygit Version 0.29

[Ryooooooga]

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/blob/master/docs/Config.md

gui:
  language: 'en' # only available in master

Or you can improve the translation yourself.

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/blob/master/pkg/i18n/polish.go

[HTD]

I got the config directory with lazygit -cd. I found an empty config.yml there. I added the setting, but it didn't work. Then I tried to change other options from default configuration, but it also didn't work. It seems like lazygit doesn't load that configuration at all. What am I doing wrong?

[Ryooooooga]

What happens when you press the o key in the status panel?

[HTD]

OK, my changed config is opened, and I see the changes work. Just not the language option.

[HTD]

So, I translated all messages. I might have left some minor bugs, but it's... at least now it's in Polish. I still think that some Polish speakers will prefer the English version because our native Git terminology is not very popular here. It was pretty tricky to find the right sources for some translations.

[jesseduffield]

Testing this out on master the config value works for me

[ChrisMcD1]

/close

Seems like this has been fixed at some point in the last few years