Let me opt-out of l18n

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

In #252, I get the error message in Dutch because the locale on my (64-bit Windows 7) system is set to Dutch. However, my language is set to en-US. I would much prefer OpenVPN doesn't try to match my locale or at least give me an option to opt out of it.

[Heiko Hund]

Right click on the GUI tray icon. Go to "Settings… » General » User Interface" and select the language of your choice from there.

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

Well, that doesn't work if I can't even start the GUI.

In particular, localized error messages suck a lot because they harm Googlability.

[Heiko Hund]

I agree.

Additionally it puts more work on the translators because they have to do the error messages, which are hopefully mostly unseen, anyway.

In some future version the error reporting will be redone to present the actual error in English with some framing in the local language. Also automatic language selection will take the set display language into account.

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

Awesome, thanks.

[Gert Döring]

What version is our goal for this?

[Heiko Hund]

Have not planned to work on this currently.

[alexwriter]

I really doubt that this is your Windows, maybe you should have a firewall?

[Selva Nair]

This looks outdated. If the GUI cannot start and throws a localized error, the language can be changed in the registry: HKCU\Software\OpenVPN-GUI\ui_language -- set it to 1033 (decimal) for English. Not very user friendly, but hard to do better if the GUI fails to start and the default language or the one user has set is not what they want.