On 01/10/2013 12:36 PM, András Murányi wrote:
> 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?

There are GUI strings in the C code, but in order for you to see them, they
are sent to pd-gui, the Tcl process.  If you're running in -nogui mode, there
will be no translations since all the translations are handled in Tcl.

>> 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)

That would be possible.  I would be willing to accept such a patch if it was
well tested but I'm not going to write it :)

.hc