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: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:32:29 -0700
On 7/25/04 2:14 PM, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 25/7/04 8:18 pm, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> We need someone in Europe or Asia to make a new user, don't touch
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> International Prefs at all, and see what the result is. But maybe a new user
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> just inherits a default from the first user.
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Using Panther, the result from AppleLocale is "en_GB"
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If I make a new user, then it defaults to the same language as that of the
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admin user.
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If I then change the International settings to make the new account French
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then (logging in again) I get "fr_FR"
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I've got a cube in the next room that I've left un-tampered with since
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Panther was installed. It also reports "en_GB" - as I'd suspect most UK
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machines do.
Thank you. If you're pretty sure that you never went into International
Prefs on the cube, that's good news. It should mean that "" is really the
same as "en_US". (Did you install OS 10.3 "clean" - Erase & Install - or was
it an upgrade from Jaguar or 10.1?)
Now the question is: how do you think that "en_GB" was determined? When you
install Panther and choose to continue in English, do you get a choice of
which type of English? In the US, by default there's just a single choice -
US English with a US flag. To choose something else you have to click "Show
All" or something like that. Do you get something similar, or maybe a
variety of Englishes with GB (or UK) pre-selected? I wonder if Apple
actually goes to the trouble of installing the correct default for the
destination in the factory (meaning destination is pre-determined) or at
some national center (where they pack it? they certainly wouldn't open it up
if already packaged.)
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Paul Berkowitz
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