# Gimp.locale_directory

    function locale_directory(): String {
        // Gjs wrapper for gimp_locale_directory()
    }

Returns the top directory for GIMP locale files. If the environment variable GIMP3_LOCALEDIR exists, that is used. It should be an absolute pathname. Otherwise, on Unix the compile-time defined directory is used. On Windows, the installation directory as deduced from the executable's full filename is used.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string encoding depends on the system where GIMP is running: on UNIX it's in the encoding used for filenames by the C library (which isn't necessarily UTF-8); on Windows it's UTF-8.

On UNIX the returned string can be passed directly to the bindtextdomain() function from libintl; on Windows the returned string can be converted to UTF-16 and passed to the wbindtextdomain() function from libintl.

Returns

  The top directory for GIMP locale files.