Hello Peter,
Peter Baumgartner wrote:
Could anyone explain how to change the environment variable LANG on the Mac
from English to German?
The new 1.5.6 version of LyX for the Mac comes by default with the English
UI. Is that done by purpose or a bug? With the version 1.5.5 I didn't have
this problem. Will the change of the environment variable affect other
programs as well?
This seems to be a regression. Until this is fixed, you can use the
following workaround:
In Terminal.app, type "export LANG=de_DE" and then start Lyx from within
that Terminal window with "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx".
Adapt the above path to where you have your LyX.app, and change the
german de_DE to e.g. fr_FR for French, etc. This will not affect any
other applications since the above LANG setting is only in effect in
this one Terminal window.
If you would want to do this permanently (and system-wide), you can use
the http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/ preference pane and
set LANG to whatever the termnial command
defaults read "Apple Global Domain" AppleLocale
tells you.
HTH,
Konrad
P.S. For testing, I will post two alternative builds soon, maybe you can
test if the same problem persists with these.
