Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
- From: Alexandre Koff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:58:53 -0400
Thanks for all the replies.
However it seems that the AppleIntlCustomFormat isn't defined in
com.apple.systempreferences... is this something I'm doing wrong ?
Thanks,
Alex
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:22:38 -0700, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 7/6/04 11:01 AM, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> on 6/7/04 6:33 pm, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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>> At 18:49 +0200 06/07/04, Peter Fischer wrote:
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>>> The single line:
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>>> set theLang to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock.loc")
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>>> should give you a result like "en_US", "fr_FR" or "de_DE" and so on...
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>> 10.3.4 here, Terminal 1.4.3, tcsh:
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>> ~ : defaults read com.apple.dock.loc
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>> 2004-07-06 19:16:43.826 defaults[10974]
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>> Domain com.apple.dock.loc does not exist
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> Try:
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> $ defaults read com.apple.systempreferences AppleIntlCustomFormat
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That's promising. As 'do shell script':
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"{
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AppleCurrencySymbol = \"\\\\U20ac\";
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AppleDateOrder = 1;
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AppleDecimalSeparator = \",\";
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AppleIntlCustomICUFormats = 7;
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AppleIntlCustomLocale = \"en_US\";
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AppleIntlCustomResID = 16383;
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AppleLongDateSeparator3 = \".\";
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AppleMetricSystem = 0;
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AppleShortDateFormat = 224;
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AppleShortDateSeparator = \".\";
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AppleThousandSeparator = \".\";
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AppleTimeCycle = 0;
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}"
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> Or this:
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> $ defaults read com.apple.systempreferences AppleIntlCustomFormat | awk
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> '/Locale/ { print $NF }'
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Even more promising:
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"\"en_US\";"
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set theLang to (do shell script "defaults read
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com.apple.systempreferences AppleIntlCustomFormat | awk '/Locale/ { print
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$NF }'")
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set theLang to (text 2 thru -3 of theLang)
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--> "en_US"
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--
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Paul Berkowitz
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