If you are running the command in the cmd.exe shell, it'll be something like this:
LANG=pt "C:\Program Files\pd\bin\pd" or LANG=pt "%ProgramFiles%\pd\bin\pd" >From Cygwin or MinGW, it'll be with forward slashes (/) .hc On 02/16/2013 02:28 PM, Björn Eriksson wrote: > Thank you for this news!! The youtube was excellent in explaining some > things aswell! > I should know better but I am not using the command line so much in > the win7 machine i am on, should i write "LANG=pt > c:/program/pd/pd-extended" The folder pd is installed at is > program/pd but seems i have some problems with the syntax... > should it be backslashes? > > All the best, > /björn > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You can also do that LANG=pt trick on Windows and Mac OS X, but you have to >> use the full path to pd/bin/pd instead of just 'pd-extended'. >> >> If someone has written in a patch in their own language, the patch will >> always >> be in that language. There is currently no way to have patches with >> translations of the text. Its something I think we should add for tutorials >> and reference docs. >> >> .hc >> >> On 02/16/2013 01:37 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote: >>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [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 > > _______________________________________________ > [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
