On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

Since Tcl handles all of the changing of English strings to the chosen
language,

Does it mean that there are no GUI strings in the C code?

it is theoritically possible to do in a plugin. The key problem is
that the translations are loaded (load_locale in pd-gui.tcl) before the
plugins and Tcl's msgcat, the library for the translations, provides mcload,
but no mkunload.

To be exact, not even mcunload would be necessary, just a way to reload strings according to the new locale. Unfortunately, this functionality is missing from TCL (there are some feature requests in the tracker that target it, though).
So, to effectively change the GUI language, Pd needs to be restarted. Do we wish to have a language selection option in the preferences, which writes its setting somewhere on the disk, and then load_locale would be changed in a way that it takes a look at the saved setting before defaulting to the OS/env language? (my vote is: no)

András

.hc

On 01/09/2013 10:35 AM, András Murányi wrote:
> I have visited this problem some time ago, and these were my (more or less
> accurate) findings:
> - There are language strings in the C code as well as in Tcl
> - In Tcl there is a straightforward way to redefine the language, but I
> haven't found a way to change the actual strings on the display without
> having to restart Pd
> - I have no idea how it goes on the C side :)
> - My impression is that this may go beyond the scope of a plugin
>
> András
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, batinste <dwanafite@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> language-plugin, anyone ? :)
>>
>>
>> On 09/01/2013 14:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> The easiest way is to start it in the Terminal like this:
>>>
>>> GNU/Linux: LANG=en pd-extended

>>> Mac OS X: LANG=en /Applications/Pd-extended.app/**

>>> Contents/Resources/bin/pd
>>> Windows (in cmd.exe):
>>> set LANG=en
>>> "%ProgramFiles%\pd\bin\pd"
>>>
>>> If you want to force English, you can also delete the .msg files in the
>>> pd/po
>>> folder.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/09/2013 07:05 AM, Joăo Pais wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> with the latest Pd version, Pd uses the system language as standard. The
>>>> thing
>>>> is, I want to keep my Pd in english. How is it possible to set the
>>>> language
>>>> when starting Pd?
>>>>
>>>> Where can suggestions to the language be sent?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Joăo
>>>>
>>>
>
>