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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> András Murányi <muranyia@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> pd-list@iem.at <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:59 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [PD] choosing your language at launch WAS: Japanese Pure Data book is out now.<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV class=yiv1689379991gmail_quote>On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 22:56, Hans-Christoph Steiner <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:hans@at.or.at" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv1689379991gmail_quote><BR>I was updating pd-extended.git, so I threw in the new Japanese<BR>translation :-). I'll be sure to update it one last time before the<BR>final release, so you can test it in a real build.<BR><BR>I'm all for choice with the language of the app, but it seems to me that<BR>is something that the OS should handle. So anyone who set their system<BR>language to English will get Pd-extended in English. For those who want<BR>some mix of languages, then there is no standard technique that I know<BR>of, and how you do it varies on each OS. If someone wants to code this<BR>for Pd-extended, patches are welcome.<BR><BR clear=all></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>If you want the *whole* app to change language, I'm pretty sure it will need to be restarted. Then I guess an equivalent of "export LANG" can be issued from tcl (and/or
C?) at startup. (Could someone with the knowledge confirm/correct this plz?)<BR>If it's enough to change the translatable strings' language, we already have the "_" function in tcl. I have no idea how it goes on the C side. Then I guess instead of restarting, it's possible to redraw the GUI (?).<BR>I'd be happy to code into this when I know more.<BR><BR>András<BR><BR></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR><A href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</A> mailing list<BR>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target=_blank>http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></div></div></body></html>