Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:15:54 -0700
On 07/06/04, 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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Or this:
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$ defaults read com.apple.systempreferences AppleIntlCustomFormat | awk
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'/Locale/ { print $NF }'
That won't really do it, IIRC, that just gives you the locale, but not the
localization. Try:
$ defaults read -g | grep AppleLanguages
->AppleLanguages = (en);
which is what you set in the International PrefPane->Language.
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