[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

[Björn Eriksson]

You can also delete the files within the po folder at the installation
folder. Then you will have (only) english menus.

I have a related question. I am running a beginners course on Pd
(distance course) and in the group there are at least 3 or 4 different
languages. Added to that is also that some people are in different
countries. So for the students in Sweden (where I am based) most of
them get the swedish language selected on install, but by different
reasons would like to have english och portuguese. They´re also on
different platforms.

My question is this... can it be possible to independently select a
preferred language regardless what the OS is suggesting and force
another language to be showed?

/Björn Eriksson

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Òscar Martínez Carmona
<xamps23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, you've just answered that! Thanx!
>
> El divendres 15 de febrer de 2013, Òscar Martínez Carmona ha escrit:
>
>> How do I switch it back to English?
>> I appreciate the spanish version but English looks much cooler!
>>
>> El divendres 15 de febrer de 2013, Hans-Christoph Steiner ha escrit:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>
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