[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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.
> 
> 
> 
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