[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Feb 20 20:35:46 CET 2013


I'm going to CC the list in case anyone else wants to change this value.

Tcl looks at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\locale in particular.  Its a number.  This is not Pd-specific, I imagine its used by lots of apps, and perhaps even the system itself.  I wouldn't recommend changing it directly, it might mess things up.  There should be a way to change the Windows system so that it is set properly in English.

If you really just want to force Pd-extended to be in English, the safest route is to delete all the .msg files in  \Program Files\pd\po

.hc


On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:34 AM, rene beekman wrote:

> Hans, I'm replyting off-list so we don't burden the list with this.
> Attached are screenshots from the registry entries on two of the
> machines. As you can see from the menus of regedit itself, the OS is
> running in English, though I am not sure where that is set in the
> International settings.
> Some of the other machines (I'm waiting for their owners to mail the
> screenshots to me) have localeName set to en_US en location to US, but
> Pd still opens in Bulgarian.
> I'll send the other screenshots when I get them.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rene
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Run 'regedit' in the Run command thing on the start menu, and look for:
>> 
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
>> 
>> .hc
>> 
>> On 02/18/2013 12:57 AM, rene beekman wrote:
>>> Hans, thanks for the reply
>>> 
>>> On the Mac it works for me.
>>> Applelocale reports en_BG and Pd properly shows up in English.
>>> 
>>> The windows machines I will be able to check tomorrow evening.
>>> How do I find the proper registry keys there?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:54:35 -0500
>>>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>> Subject: Re: [PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43
>>>> To: pd-list at iem.at
>>>> Message-ID: <511E4C2B.2030908 at at.or.at>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
> <a.png><b.png><registry editor.jpg><registry editor2.jpg>




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