[PD] Japanese language problem

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Hm, I made those changes to dialog_audio.tlc and it didn't help. After
that, I tried making the pd-lang.bat file as per the github link's
instructions and that also didn't work (It launches PD, but I still get the
error when trying to open Audio Settings.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 4:41 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you do a test by modifying the Audio dialog's TCL script? It's in the
> Pd folder: tcl/audio_dialog.tcl
>
> Modify the "set audio_indev" & "set audio_outdev" lines starting at 103
> from:
>
>     set audio_indev1 $indev1
>
> to
>
>     set audio_indev1 [encoding convertfrom $indev1]
>
> This should convert the device name from the system encoding to UTF8 which
> the Tk GUI should be able to handle.
>
> Basically, modify those lines, then save the file and (re)start Pd. If it
> doesn't appear or crashes right away, then there is a low-level script
> error. It's a good idea to make a backup of the file just in case this
> happens.
>
> We may have to escape more strings throughout the GUI and probably
> re-encode the device strings when sending them back to the pd-core.
>
> On Jul 30, 2018, at 6:11 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's a bug. Pd should be able to handle unicode in this case.
>
> In the meantime, you can set the LANG environment variable when starting
> Pd to English as detailed in https://github.com/pure-
> data/pure-data/blob/master/po/README.txt#L42
>
> Hello,
>
> Pure Data throws the following error when I try to open up Media>Audio
> Settings:
>
> (Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: extra characters after close-brace
> while executing
> "lappend audio_indevlist {}CN (Realtek High Definition}
> global audio_outdevlist; set audio_outdevlist {}
> lappend audio_outdevlist {Xs [J ..."
> ("uplevel" body line 2)
> invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 $docmds"
>
> My OS is in Japanese and, according to this page (
> https://drugscore.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-194.html), I need to change the
> language setting of my OS to English (presumably other European languages
> would work, since I've used PD on a German-language system) to bypass this
> system.
>
> Just wondering if there was another fix- it's not a big deal for me to
> change the settings, but maybe for Japanese people interested in PD it
> would be.
>
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