[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

[rene beekman]

Hans, thanks for the reply

On the Mac it works for me.
Applelocale reports en_BG and Pd properly shows up in English.

The windows machines I will be able to check tomorrow evening.
How do I find the proper registry keys there?




> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:54:35 -0500
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43
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> Pd-extended should use the same language that the user is using.  If not, its
> a bug.  Pd-extended on Mac OS X looks at what language the Dock is configured
> in and uses that.  Apparently, this is not reliable, since I guess people buy
> systems in one language, then use them in another, and the Dock doesn't seem
> to respect that change.  You can check the language of your Dock and your
> global locale by running this in the Terminal:
>
> defaults read com.apple.dock loc
> defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale
>
> The easiest fix it to probably set the language of the Dock like this:
>
> defaults write com.apple.dock loc en_US
>
> I have no idea why its failing on Windows, maybe for a similar reason.  As far
> as I could tell, Pd-extended uses the 'proper' registry value:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
>
> Could you send the value of that registry key on machines that fail to respect
> the user setting?
>
> .hc
>
> On 02/15/2013 01:03 AM, rene beekman wrote:
> > How do I set / change the default language on both Windoze and Mac for 0.43
> > ?
> > I don't have a Windoze machine myself, so can't test there, but the readme
> > for the Mac version does not say anything about it. There also seems to be
> > no setting in the preference file for this (or at least none that I could
> > find).
> >
> > I searched the list-archives and the "best" instruction I found was to
> > delete all .msg files inside /po, which seems a bit crude to me.
> > Is there a more elegant way to do this?
> >
> > I understand from an older discussion that the assumption was that
> > "non-technical" people were assumed to want to use Pd in their native
> > language. I did installs this week on about a dozen machines
> > and apparently they all belonged to "non-technical" people, even though
> > every single one of them runs all software on their machine in English
> > only... Wouldn't it be wiser to assume that whatever the language is that
> > the OS is running in, is also the language that people really want to use
> > their software in?
> > Just my two cents.
> >
> >
> >