I'm going to CC the list in case anyone else wants to change this value. Tcl looks at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\locale in particular. Its a number. This is not Pd-specific, I imagine its used by lots of apps, and perhaps even the system itself. I wouldn't recommend changing it directly, it might mess things up. There should be a way to change the Windows system so that it is set properly in English.
If you really just want to force Pd-extended to be in English, the safest route is to delete all the .msg files in \Program Files\pd\po .hc On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:34 AM, rene beekman wrote: > Hans, I'm replyting off-list so we don't burden the list with this. > Attached are screenshots from the registry entries on two of the > machines. As you can see from the menus of regedit itself, the OS is > running in English, though I am not sure where that is set in the > International settings. > Some of the other machines (I'm waiting for their owners to mail the > screenshots to me) have localeName set to en_US en location to US, but > Pd still opens in Bulgarian. > I'll send the other screenshots when I get them. > > Thanks! > > Rene > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote: >> >> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > <a.png><b.png><registry editor.jpg><registry editor2.jpg> _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list