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 <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
