On 2006-October-27 , at 22:24 , Géraud Gazal wrote:
i'm pretty sure there are a few Mac users running Inkscape.
I hope there are more than a few ;-)
On User-Fr mailing-list, someone has complained he can't set the French translation. Maybe someone having experienced this problem can provide some feedback. The user has already checked the FAQ, but it doesn not seem to solve the problem.
What version is he/she using? It appears indeed that the release version do not switch to languages other than English even though locale information and localized tutorials are included correctly in the application bundle. The mechanism for switching languages for X11 programs on OS X is the same than for other programs: System Preferences > International and drag the language you want to use to the top of the list. It means that if the rest of his/her system is in French, Inkscape should be in French too. I appears that X11.app handles the language change itself and do not care about what is told by the command "locale" (i.e. locale can output LANG="en_US" but X11 and Inkscape start in French if the language selected in the International Preference Pane is French). International settings are correctly respected in latest SVN trunk but another bug makes Inkscape unusable. It has to be fixed before producing a development package. In the meantime, I'll try to check out the release branch and compile it to test what happens.
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/