Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
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.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Alexandre Koff <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:58:53 -0400
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To: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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Cc: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
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Thanks for all the replies.
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However it seems that the AppleIntlCustomFormat isn't defined in
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com.apple.systempreferences... is this something I'm doing wrong ?
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Thanks,
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Alex
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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:22:38 -0700, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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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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>>>
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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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