[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

Hans-Christoph Steiner made this video explaining how to open Pd from the
command line with the preferred language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLkSmIAleMc
Although if you open it in English for example and then open a patch you
made in another language it will most likely switch to that language, as
far as my experience tells me..


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Björn Eriksson <miulew at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >> --
> >> Òscar Martínez Carmona
> >>
> >
> >
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