Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Getting the default language with AppleScript
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:09:32 +0100
on 25/7/04 10:32 pm, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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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.
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Thank you. If you're pretty sure that you never went into International
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Prefs on the cube, that's good news. It should mean that "" is really the
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same as "en_US". (Did you install OS 10.3 "clean" - Erase & Install - or was
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it an upgrade from Jaguar or 10.1?)
It was an upgrade from 10.2.
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Now the question is: how do you think that "en_GB" was determined? When you
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install Panther and choose to continue in English, do you get a choice of
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which type of English? In the US, by default there's just a single choice -
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US English with a US flag. To choose something else you have to click "Show
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All" or something like that. Do you get something similar, or maybe a
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variety of Englishes with GB (or UK) pre-selected? I wonder if Apple
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actually goes to the trouble of installing the correct default for the
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destination in the factory (meaning destination is pre-determined) or at
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some national center (where they pack it? they certainly wouldn't open it up
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if already packaged.)
ISTR that the installers are a little more *localized* than the the US
version. We certainly get a Union Jack to click and the registration
information is provided in a UK address format.
You also need to choose a time zone - which would also help the OS determine
that you weren't from the "" locale :-)
I would think that Apple do make a point of *going to the trouble* of doing
this sort of thing otherwise anybody outside the US would claim that they
couldn't understand the license agreement and would therefore be at liberty
to ignore it.
Regards
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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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