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Re: An interesting localisation issue
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Re: An interesting localisation issue


  • Subject: Re: An interesting localisation issue
  • From: Simon Stapleton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:40:03 +0100

From: Jens Bjerrehuus <email@hidden>
Strange difference with the Apple menu, mine is always in Danish. I'm
also at 10.2.2.

sxndag 24. nov 2002 kl. 17:47 skrev Andreas Mayer:

and the 'Show in finder'/'Quit' menu items in dock menus.

Well, the dock menus are owned by the applications they belong to. So
they won't change until you restart that app.

Not all of an applications dock menu is owned by the application. The
'Show in Finder' and 'Quit' menu items are owned by the Dock. They are
found in the DockMenus.plist file inside the Dock.app's resources and
are (at least here) localised with the Dock and not with the
application.

Well, I gave it a shot with HexEditor. Dragged a copy to my desktop, trashed the English.lproj (leaving French and Japanese) and fired it up. My system prefs specify UK English, English, French.

The application came up in French as expected, with all the application menus _and_ the apple menu in French. I assume this is what Douglas was referring to when he talked about 'an English-only app might take half of its content from the Japanese version of AppKit'. So far, so consistent. One app, one language. Very cool.

The menuextras or whatever the hell they're called these days all stayed English, though, as did the application's Dock menu.

Next up, and just for laughs, I trashed the French.lproj as well, leaving only Japanese. Despite not having Japanese as a possible language according to my prefs, it all came up in Japanese. That may be my misreading of what the languages section is all about, though.

And, oddly enough, it didn't look as distracting as I thought it would. Not that I'm going to work in Japanese from now on, though...

Simon
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