[PD] Japanese language problem

S.E.P. dreamoftheshoreofanotherworld at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 05:52:07 CEST 2018


I guess I'll have to change my system settings to a European language then.
Too bad! It was good for my vocabulary to have the JP settings.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:21 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

> It might then be a lower-level issue with the device strings returned by
> Portaudio.
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2018, at 11:56 AM, S.E.P. <dreamoftheshoreofanotherworld
> @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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-dat
>> a/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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>> Dan Wilcox
>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Dan Wilcox
>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
>> danomatika.com
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
> danomatika.com
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