[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You can also do that LANG=pt trick on Windows and Mac OS X, but you have to
use the full path to pd/bin/pd instead of just 'pd-extended'.

If someone has written in a patch in their own language, the patch will always
be in that language.  There is currently no way to have patches with
translations of the text.  Its something I think we should add for tutorials
and reference docs.

.hc

On 02/16/2013 01:37 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
> 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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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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