Just give it a try by Openning a command terminal and type "set LC_MESSAGES=en_CA" ( this will be a local environment variable, wont disturb functionallity of other programs ) and then "gimp-2.0.exe" , in the same terminal and you will have whatever strings are present in <your gimp folder>/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGE associated with there respective binary values of psudotyped origin(due to compilation) ie: a Different language for gimps ascii habitat. and respectively "set LC_MESSAGES=de" .