changing locale
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Is there a way to change the locale from cocoa as if i was to go into
System Preferences and change the language then the format?
thx
AC -
Not a supported way, no. We don't encourage applications to change
system-wide settings.
Deborah Goldsmith
Apple Inc.
<goldsmit...>
On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Alexander Cohen wrote:
> Is there a way to change the locale from cocoa as if i was to go
> into System Preferences and change the language then the format?
>
> thx
>
> AC
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Thats what i though but here is my problem, and i'm sure im not the
only who has it. I am currently working on localizing apps for
mulitple languages. I would like to have an easy way to set the locale
without going into the system prefs and trying once again to guess
which settings i need to change to get my locale to zh_CN, or zh_TW,
KO or anything else.
thx
A
On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
> Not a supported way, no. We don't encourage applications to change
> system-wide settings.
>
> Deborah Goldsmith
> Apple Inc.
> <goldsmit...>
>
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Alexander Cohen wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to change the locale from cocoa as if i was to go
>> into System Preferences and change the language then the format?
>>
>> thx
>>
>> AC
>
>
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On Jun 10, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote:
> Thats what i though but here is my problem, and i'm sure im not the
> only who has it. I am currently working on localizing apps for
> mulitple languages. I would like to have an easy way to set the
> locale without going into the system prefs and trying once again to
> guess which settings i need to change to get my locale to zh_CN, or
> zh_TW, KO or anything else.
Locale is not the same as localization. It sounds like what you are
interested in is localization. If you want to launch a specific
application instance in a specific localization, you can do so by
specifying command-line arguments. For example,
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit -AppleLanguages
"(de)"
will launch TextEdit in German. You should also be able to set
command-line arguments in Xcode. The first argument here is -
AppleLanguages, the name of the default. The second is an array of
strings, so that you could (for example) use "(de,en)" to specify a
preference order of German first, English second. The quotes are for
the shell.
Douglas Davidson -
On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote:
>
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote:
>
>> Thats what i though but here is my problem, and i'm sure im not the
>> only who has it. I am currently working on localizing apps for
>> mulitple languages. I would like to have an easy way to set the
>> locale without going into the system prefs and trying once again to
>> guess which settings i need to change to get my locale to zh_CN, or
>> zh_TW, KO or anything else.
>
> Locale is not the same as localization. It sounds like what you are
> interested in is localization. If you want to launch a specific
> application instance in a specific localization, you can do so by
> specifying command-line arguments. For example,
>
> /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit -AppleLanguages
> "(de)"
>
> will launch TextEdit in German. You should also be able to set
> command-line arguments in Xcode. The first argument here is -
> AppleLanguages, the name of the default. The second is an array of
> strings, so that you could (for example) use "(de,en)" to specify a
> preference order of German first, English second. The quotes are
> for the shell.
Nice, i didnt know that. Im not sure this completely fullfills my
needs, but it will do for now.
thx
AC
