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Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
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Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript


  • Subject: Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:03:24 -0700

I think it's Panther only. Are you in Jaguar? There was another way to get
'en_US' in Jaguar, using 'system attribute' IIRC. I'll have to look it up in
on of my older scripts.

...

Yes, Try

system attribute "LANG"

in Jaguar or earlier.

--
Paul Berkowitz


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