On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Michael Wybrow wrote:


So, Inkscape-0.46-3-TIGER-UNIVERSAL.dmg on my 10.4 machine obeys the language settings from the OS X System Preferences.  Not sure why this won't work for you.  

Jon, could you please run the following command (used by Inkscape on OS X to set the LANG variable) and report the results for the languages you are trying:

export LANG="`grep \"\`defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleCollationOrder \
        2>&1\`_\" /usr/share/locale/locale.alias | tail -n1 | sed 's/\./ /' | \
        awk '{print $2}'`.UTF-8"
echo $LANG

If you have your language set to spanish you should get LANG="es_ES.UTF-8", or LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" for french, etc.

Could you also show the results of just running "defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleCollationOrder"

In a terminal in X11, I get this for my default (English) setup

.UTF8

When I set some other language in that control panel, it shows up. For Spanish I get

es_ES.UTF-8


Oh no!!!!

It looks like something got unblocked on my system. Hmmm.... tricky. Might be a profile-specific thing... and if it truly is one of those that gets unblocked and says unblocked, then someone can only ever test it once but all newbies may see it.

:-(