Run 'regedit' in the Run command thing on the start menu, and look for: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
.hc On 02/18/2013 12:57 AM, rene beekman wrote: > 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 <h...@at.or.at> >> Subject: Re: [PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43 >> To: pd-list@iem.at >> Message-ID: <511e4c2b.2030...@at.or.at> >> 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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list