Hi Jonathan, If I change my shell from bash to one that supports environment variables like tcsh, then issuing a setenv command in terminal shows there is a "LANG" environment variable:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Mac OS X lets you launch applications with a switch for the language localization "-AppleLanguages" this takes a 2 letter argument enclosed in parentheses which are in turn enclosed in single quotation marks. Earlier this year a 4G iPod Nano user reported that he could not access the music and podcast tabs for his device when the iPod was connected (to check or uncheck entries) to his computer, although it synced fine, and all the Nano spoken menus (in German) worked correctly. I launched iTunes with a German language localization with a terminal command: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes -AppleLanguages '(de)' & and found that when I connected my iPod Nano 4G I could no longer access these tabs with VoiceOver, although they were perfectly accessible to me in the English language version of iTunes. A quick experiment showed that when the list member forced his version of iTunes to launch with an English localization from the terminal, he had no problems accessing the tabs with VoiceOver and checking or unchecking his selections: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes -AppleLanguages '(en)' & So his solution was to report the problem to the accessibility team and use iTunes in German for his regular use, but launch it in English for the purposes of changing the synced content by accessing the checkboxes on the music and podcasts tabs when he connected his iPod Nano 4G. (The problem was fixed in iTunes 8.2.1, so he no longer has to do this!). There's an easier way for people to set the language localization of an app (in Leopard) through the GUI. If you do a "Get Info" (Command- I) on a selected application file, the "Get Info" window has an area that VoiceOver announces as "Languages: expanded disclosure triangle". If you navigate past this, there is a table of available language localizations preceded by checkboxes. Unchecking all but one of the boxes and saving your changes means that the next time the app is opened, it will have to open in the only checked language localization -- even if that is not the default language for the account. This language localization information and selection feature that shows up under Get Info for apps appears to have been removed in Snow Leopard. One language feature that went away from Tiger to Leopard, and appears to be restored in Snow Leopard, is the ability to have multiple windows up for an app with a different input keyboard for each window. So, if I am using TextEdit to compose one message in French with a French input keyboard, and want to open another TextEdit window to compose a message in Russian with a Russian input keyboard, I should be able to do that in Snow Leopard. Cheers, Esther Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > Hmm, in my Solaris machines, setting the "LANG" environment variable > in the shell before launch will set the localization. I wonder if that > would work in Leopard? Something like a shell script > LANG=UK/English launch mail > :0) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
