[PD] choosing your language at launch WAS: Japanese Pure Data book is out now.

[Jonathan Wilkes]

How do other programs like Ardour handle translations?
 
-Jonathan


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>From: András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [PD] choosing your language at launch WAS: Japanese Pure Data book is out now.
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>On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 22:56, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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>>I was updating pd-extended.git, so I threw in the new Japanese
>>translation :-).  I'll be sure to update it one last time before the
>>final release, so you can test it in a real build.
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>>I'm all for choice with the language of the app, but it seems to me that
>>is something that the OS should handle.  So anyone who set their system
>>language to English will get Pd-extended in English.  For those who want
>>some mix of languages, then there is no standard technique that I know
>>of, and how you do it varies on each OS.  If someone wants to code this
>>for Pd-extended, patches are welcome.
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>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?)
>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 (?).
>I'd be happy to code into this when I know more.
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>András
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