<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello!<br><br></div><div>I'm very sorry I never saw your reply, Dan. I just kept using PD without access to the Audio Settings... Today, I finally changed the OS language and system region to English (U.S.) and can open Audio Settings.</div><div><br></div><div>To answer your questions, I'm not tech-savvy enough to know how to "get a copy of the string that causes the error". I've used error logs for Android before, do I need to open something like that, but for Windows and look at it while I click on Media>Audio Settings?</div><div><br></div><div>As for the setup, it's Windows 10 on a Dell
Inspiron 15 7577 NG55VR-7WL. <br><br></div><div>Let me know how I can help.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Elliot<br>

</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 10:56 PM Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Internationalization support is definitely high on my list. Is there some way you could get a copy of the string that causes the error? It's hard to debug/fix things without the same set up, ie. it could be a problem with Tcl/Tk or Portaudio string handling on Windows, etc. In any case, the audio dialog shouldn't crash Pd on our friends in Japan!<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 2, 2018, at 5:52 AM, S.E.P. <<a href="mailto:dreamoftheshoreofanotherworld@gmail.com" target="_blank">dreamoftheshoreofanotherworld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_1462306747211407270gmail-m_-7343109947360949663gmail-m_4798131383062137210Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">I guess I'll have to change my system settings to a European language then. Too bad! It was good for my vocabulary to have the JP settings. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:21 AM, Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>It might then be a lower-level issue with the device strings returned by Portaudio.<div><div class="gmail-m_1462306747211407270gmail-m_-7343109947360949663gmail-m_4798131383062137210h5"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 1, 2018, at 11:56 AM, S.E.P. <<a href="mailto:dreamoftheshoreofanotherworld@gmail.com" target="_blank">dreamoftheshoreofanotherworld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_1462306747211407270gmail-m_-7343109947360949663gmail-m_4798131383062137210m_2408817635742471796Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Hm, I made those changes to dialog_audio.tlc and it didn't help. After that, I tried making the pd-lang.bat file as per the github link's instructions and that also didn't work (It launches PD, but I still get the error when trying to open Audio Settings.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 4:41 AM, Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Can you do a test by modifying the Audio dialog's TCL script? It's in the Pd folder: tcl/audio_dialog.tcl<div><br></div><div>Modify the "set audio_indev" & "set audio_outdev" lines starting at 103 from:</div><div><br></div><div>    set audio_indev1 $indev1</div><div><br></div><div>to </div><div>  </div><div>    set audio_indev1 [encoding convertfrom $indev1]</div><div><br></div><div>This should convert the device name from the system encoding to UTF8 which the Tk GUI should be able to handle.</div><div><br></div><div>Basically, modify those lines, then save the file and (re)start Pd. If it doesn't appear or crashes right away, then there is a low-level script error. It's a good idea to make a backup of the file just in case this happens.</div><div><br></div><div>We may have to escape more strings throughout the GUI and probably re-encode the device strings when sending them back to the pd-core.</div><div><div class="gmail-m_1462306747211407270gmail-m_-7343109947360949663gmail-m_4798131383062137210m_2408817635742471796h5"><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 30, 2018, at 6:11 PM, Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_1462306747211407270gmail-m_-7343109947360949663gmail-m_4798131383062137210m_2408817635742471796m_4965505046176217017Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>It's a bug. Pd should be able to handle unicode in this case.<br><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, you can set the LANG environment variable when starting Pd to English as detailed in <a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/po/README.txt#L42" target="_blank">https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/po/README.txt#L42</a></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Hello,</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-sp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size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">invoked from within</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">"uplevel #0 $docmds"</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">My OS is in Japanese and, according to this page (</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://drugscore.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-194.html" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://drugscore.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-194.html</a><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">), I need to change the</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">language setting of my OS to English (presumably other European languages</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">would work, since I've used PD on a German-language system) to bypass this</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">system.</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Just wondering if there was another fix- it's not a big deal for me to</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">change the settings, but maybe for Japanese people interested in PD it</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">would be.</span></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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