Hi Mark & Kevin,
Kevin now has the Date/Time displaying in Bahasa, but not the Menus
or applications in Indonesian.
Apple Discussions have quite a bit on this subject:
'How to Select Desired Language in the Startup & Login Windows':
The language used by the login window is written in /Library/
Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist. The file name begins with a
dot . , so it is hidden in the Finder.
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3994175�>
<http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4002079#4002079>
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=837301&tstart=0>
Using Terminal - Applications/Utilities/Terminal :
Quote Begins:
running from an "admin" account would require:
sudo "/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/
MacOS/Language Chooser"
Language Chooser modifies not only /
LibraryPreferences/.GlobalPreferences but also /var/log/CDIS.custom.
The latter is a one line plain text file
Just mofiying .GlobalPrefereces (by defaults write) seems to be
sufficient, but CIDS.custom may have some importance (it is read by /
etc/rc) so using Language Chooser would be a better way.
End of Quote:
Cheers,
Ronni
On 18/06/2007, at 10:25 AM, Mark Secker wrote:
Both Windows and Mac OSX support most of the "major" languages,
(all European national and most European ethnic languages including
eastern Cyrillic), most of the main African languages andÝ most
Asian languages from Turkish, Hebrew, Persian, Arabic to Hindu to
Thai to all the major Chinese dialects, Korean and Japanese to
Philippine.
and yes, even Bahasa Indonesia.
Go to System preferences/International/language, if you only see
English click on the "edit list" button and select the languages
you want it to support.
To change the primary language (interface/dialogues) you need to
drag that language to the top of the System preferences/
International/language list and then log out an log back in again.
I'm not sure how to set it up to change globally (for all users)
It's generally pretty much the same with windows.
difference is is that by recall a default Mac install includes
almost all languages except for those that are transcribed right to
left and some of the minor far eastern and Asian languages (maybe
wrong maybe now days installs all language support by default)
where as Windows installs to the CD's default language plus US
English support (if default language is not English) and all other
language supports have to be installed as extra's during the setup
or afterwards.
in our house we have a mac setup to display English, Chinese
(simplified), Korean and Japanese
and 3 windows machines setup the same way but with one being
primary interface in Japanese and another other also having Bahasa
as a supported language.
Application support is another thing though - both in Windows and
Mac OSX... MS Office is pretty good but outside of that it's all
pot luck and hit and miss e.g. Eudora supports English and Japanese
- but not on the one install you have to install both versions an
launch the one with the language you want to use
Everywhere we have travelled we have seen both Mac and Windows
operating systems in English only.
Are other language Operating Systems available....Bahasa Indonesia
for example?
Google tells me that Apple is developing and Arabic OS and Windows
is soon to release an LE edition of XP in Malay, Thai and some
other language.
Does this mean that the rest of the world has to use English?
TIA
Kev
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