Hans-Christoph Steiner made this video explaining how to open Pd from the command line with the preferred language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLkSmIAleMc Although if you open it in English for example and then open a patch you made in another language it will most likely switch to that language, as far as my experience tells me..
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Björn Eriksson <[email protected]> wrote: > You can also delete the files within the po folder at the installation > folder. Then you will have (only) english menus. > > I have a related question. I am running a beginners course on Pd > (distance course) and in the group there are at least 3 or 4 different > languages. Added to that is also that some people are in different > countries. So for the students in Sweden (where I am based) most of > them get the swedish language selected on install, but by different > reasons would like to have english och portuguese. They´re also on > different platforms. > > My question is this... can it be possible to independently select a > preferred language regardless what the OS is suggesting and force > another language to be showed? > > /Björn Eriksson > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Òscar Martínez Carmona > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, you've just answered that! Thanx! > > > > El divendres 15 de febrer de 2013, Òscar Martínez Carmona ha escrit: > > > >> How do I switch it back to English? > >> I appreciate the spanish version but English looks much cooler! > >> > >> El divendres 15 de febrer de 2013, Hans-Christoph Steiner ha escrit: > >>> > >>> > >>> 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 > >>> > > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> [email protected] mailing list > >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Òscar Martínez Carmona > >> > > > > > > -- > > Òscar Martínez Carmona > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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