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Changing language settings on QGIS 3?
On the same dialog, go to the first tab on the top with the screw driver and the hammer called General.
Then, it's the first box. Toggle the first checkbox and choose your flag.
You need to restart ...
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Empty vector menu in QGIS on PC with French as default language
I'm teaching qgis right now and several student have the same problem. The processing plugin deactivate by their self in several laptops. Just go to plugins/manage and install plugins and reactivate ...
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Empty vector menu in QGIS on PC with French as default language
There is already a bug reported for this problem.
In the meantime you can click "Reset to defaults" under Settings > Options > Processing and then restart QGIS. This removes the empty vector/raster ...
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English translations of QGIS commands, algorithms and menu items
You can use a search within https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qgis/QGIS/master/i18n/qgis_de.ts
You can also use https://www.transifex.com/qgis/QGIS/language/de/ (you need to create an account) to ease ...
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Changing data display language on QGIS?
You would need to change the column used for labeling. The NaturalEarth dataset contains the NAME column, with the town name in its original language, as well as several translations. You might be ...
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Setting Google street basemap language in QGIS?
Add &hl=en to your URL.
So it looks like https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=m&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}&hl=en.
Instead of en you can also use any other language code. Note that most names ...
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Change language of QGIS Browser to English
There is a way to force localization to english. It's an ugly way but it works...
Go to (QGIS_DIR)\apps\qgis\i18n, make a backup folder and move all files into that folder. That will force QGIS and ...
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How to set QGIS language other then OS
QGIS will use you system language by default. You can change this under Settings - Options - Tab Locale - Override system locale and choose another.
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Changing language of QGIS Interface
Settings (or extra) --> options --> Locale --> (click to override) then chose language --> restart the programme to apply the new settings
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Custom format for a grid with degrees, minutes, seconds with suffix using letter from another language
Transforming decimal degrees to degrees-minutes-seconds requires some intermediate variables, so you would need to create a custom function to achieve what you want.
The way to do the conversion is ...
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Changing language from Persian to English in QGIS
You can read this part of the official QGIS documentation.
Settings menu > Options > General tab
Override System Locale
By default, QGIS relies on your Operating System configuration to set ...
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Change the language of OSM maps in QGIS
You can not change the content of pre-renderd tiles. Since there seems to be no tile server with english labelling worldwide, you have to do it on your own:
Render the tiles using the Mapnik ...
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How to publish multiple languages in geoserver, data from osm
First thing to do is to make sure that osm2pgsql is converting the name:en tag into the PostGIS database. The default style https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/blob/master/default.style does ...
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Getting QGIS interface in French on Mac
The following instruction is in French so that a non-English-speaking user can set QGIS to French.
Pour avoir QGIS en français, tu dois avoir les paramètres suivants
dans l'onglet Préférences. ...
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How to translate a QGIS project using a *.qm file? / my QGIS project is not translated?
The general workflow and technical details are well explained here:
Create a .qgs project file in a base language (e.g. English)
Create a .ts translation file for language(s) in QGIS: Project > ...
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Getting output in different language in GeoPy
As per the doc, you can specify the language as a str type in the parameters of the reverse() method. By default it is language=False, that matches the language of the country for which the geocoder ...
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Different languages via command line paramaters
Yes, that's possible, just run QGIS from the command line in this way:
qgis --lang en
Then, from another console:
qgis --lang es
However, be aware that using QGIS in one instance might store ...
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QGIS : how to do elegant multiple replace string?
It looks like this has been done successfully in Python. Have a look at this post on Stack Overflow.
In order to replicate this in QGIS, you'll need to create a function to use in the Field ...
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Accentuated characters not displaying well in Arcpy Toolbox in ArcMap
ArcMap uses the following encoding cp1252
In order to make accentuated characters well displayed in ArcMap UI.
First add the following import and set encoding to utf-8 at the beginning of your .pyt ...
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Changing language keyboard OSGeo Live
Have you tried running the following command in a terminal
setxkbmap de
Change de to the language that you want. If you want to make the changes persistent, then add the above command to your bashrc ...
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How to set default language in GeoNetwork 3.0?
GeoNetwork automatically detects the default language from the browser and redirects to that language. You will have to override that to avoid this redirection.
Check the Spring MVC configuration ...
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Implementing French language in PyQGIS Plugin
It depends on the creator of the plugin. The localization is available:
If there is an i18n (short for internationalization) sub-directory in the plugins directory
All messages in the plugin are used ...
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Identify and split data in other languages using QGIS
You can use regular expressions. I dont know how to in Field Calculator so I use Python.
This doesnt identify language, just the characters a-Z.
See Extracting only characters from a string in Python
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Identify and split data in other languages using QGIS
Use regular expressions with Field Calculator. Based on regular expressions \\p{Latin} (to match all latin characters) and \\s (to match whitespaces), use regex_replace() function to delete everything ...
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Umlaute not displayed correctly when loading .mdb MS Access into QGIS with eVis
I would do it in this way :
Layer Properties (Eigenschaften)> General (Allgemein) > Data source coding (Datenquellenkodierung)
There choose UTF-8
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How to set default language in GeoNetwork 3.0?
I was looking at CatController.js and the Spring MVC but couldnt do much.
I managed to set everything in english (one language only) by manipulating the HTTP headers passed from Nginx to geonetwork
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Change Dynamic Text language in ArcGIS
As far as I can see, dynamic labels do not support different cultures, nor is there any support for logic to replace e.g. the month number with a text.
The only workaround I can think of is an ugly ...
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UnicodeEncodeError in QGIS when setting a path
As @Joseph suggested, the problem was due to the bug in the code of the processing sub-module BatchOutputSelectionPanel.py (maybe it exists in other modules, though I have not tested it yet).
As ...
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Changing ArcGIS map service language?
You can't change that basemap, but there are localized alternatives. See this blog for a list of localized basemaps.
You'll notice in the blog, Brazilian Portuguese is available, with the Light Grey ...
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Is there a standard vernacular for levels of political boundaries (specifically city, county, state, nation)
ISO currently doesn't standardize the hierarchical structure of administrative/statistical units. But, there is an EU directive called INSPIRE that specifies data models for 34 data themes in order to ...
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