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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008VLC language setting?
I'm using VLC 0.8.6c on a 1.8GHz iG5. It runs very nicely and I'm exremely pleased with it except that the menus all come up in French. This isn't a disaster, as I speak the language so it doesn't stop me using the appication. However, it'd be nice to get it back to English. I've been through the prefs and readmes but I can't find the fu. Anybody have any ideas? And yes, my general settings are UK English and I'm located in London, UK.  SignaturePeter > I'm using VLC 0.8.6c on a 1.8GHz iG5. It runs very nicely and I'm > exremely pleased with it except that the menus all come up in French. I have version 0.8.6d here and I just checked all languages are accessible via the "get info" panel. What does your "get info" panel say? (if english is unchecked, try rechecking it) H. SignatureFrédérique & Hervé Sainct, h.sainct@laposte.net [fr,es,en,it] Frédérique's initial is missing in front of the above address l'initiale de Frédérique manque devant l'adresse email ci-dessus Frédérique & Hervé Sainct <h.sainct@laposte.net.invalid> wrote: > I have version 0.8.6d here and I just checked all languages are > accessible via the "get info" panel. What does your "get info" panel > say? (if english is unchecked, try rechecking it) I had a look. *All* languages were checked. I tried unchecking all except English (if I uncheck English, just have en_GB, the application won't run). The thing is, it still comes up in French (which, as far as I can see, isn't checked). Hmmmm. In the mean time, it still runs fine, and *isn't* it good? I guess I could download a later build (mine's c, yours is d). SignaturePeter > Frédérique & Hervé Sainct <h.sainct@laposte.net.invalid> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > en_GB, the application won't run). The thing is, it still comes up in > French (which, as far as I can see, isn't checked). Pretty odd. You can force a Cocoa app to use a particular language in two ways - by setting AppleLanguages in its prefs: defaults write org.videolan.vlc AppleLanguages "(English)" (Or remove the key if you want it to use your user defaults). You can override all that for a one-off if you start it from the command line: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -AppleLanguages "(English)" But weirdly although that works with every other (Apple and non-Apple) app I tried, it doesn't work with VLC. I think VLC's doing something wrong and broken, or possibly trying to be too clever by half and failing. Anyway, try trashing VLC's prefs. The parentheses are because the value's actually an array of languages. > Hmmmm. In the mean time, it still runs fine, and *isn't* it good? I > guess I could download a later build (mine's c, yours is d). And f has been around for a bit. Cheers, Chris On 04/05/2008, Chris Ridd wrote in message <685jtmF2r6gqtU1@mid.individual.net>: > I think VLC's doing something > wrong and broken, or possibly trying to be too clever by half and > failing. Is there a chance you had your keyboard (or some other language preference) set to French when you installed it ? Simon. Signaturehttp://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk > I tried unchecking all except English (if I uncheck English, just have > en_GB, the application won't run). The thing is, it still comes up in > French (which, as far as I can see, isn't checked). > > Hmmmm. In the mean time, it still runs fine, and *isn't* it good? I > guess I could download a later build (mine's c, yours is d). 14. VLC does not start anymore or does strange things Delete your preferences and try again. You can use the script "Delete Preferences.app" on the disk-image to do that. If you want to do it by hand, delete "org.videolan.vlc.plist" and a folder called "VLC" in ~/Library/Preferences (your personal preferences-folder inside the library of your HOME). If this does not help, see 13. |
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