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

András Murányi muranyia at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 00:42:25 CET 2012


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:57, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

>  On 02/25/2012 11:59 AM, András Murányi wrote:
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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.
>>
>> 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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> What I meant by a mix of languages is a mix of apps on a given system
> running in different languages, i.e. Thunderbird in Japanese, Pd in
> English.  Perhaps this could be handled by a plugin?  I don't know all the
> possible ways of getting Tcl to change the language, but I do know that
> 'export LANG=ja' works.
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> .hc
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...what I understood was a way to change the UI language from within pd,
like a dropdown menu in preferences. Is that what you meant?

András
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