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How to change the standard language setting ?

CmdrLaForge

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Hi,

I have a problem with the standard language setting. Every time I start-up my Mac starts up with US (see picture attached). I have changed in the system prefernces under language settings and under network settings everything and have tried many things, but everytime I start-up its back on US setting. Maybe someone has an idea ? I really changed already everything in the system prefs but on re-boot - back to US.

Thanks
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LeeTom

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I believe (but wait for others to confirm this, as I'm not sure) that it will always revert back to the language of the installed OS. Since you installed in with English as the primary language, the only way to have it default to anything other than English would be to reinstall OS X in that language, and have everything appear in that language.

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LeeTom said:
I believe (but wait for others to confirm this, as I'm not sure) that it will always revert back to the language of the installed OS. Since you installed in with English as the primary language, the only way to have it default to anything other than English would be to reinstall OS X in that language, and have everything appear in that language.

Lee Tom
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Thanks for your hint, but I have installed it with german as the standard language and this problem is new :)

I have two users setup and for the other user I have no problem.

Re-installing is no option. Then I choose to change it by hand after every re-boot.

Cheers
LaForge
 
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CmdrLaForge said:
Thanks for your hint, but I have installed it with german as the standard language and this problem is new :)

I have two users setup and for the other user I have no problem.

Re-installing is no option. Then I choose to change it by hand after every re-boot.

Cheers
LaForge
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It may seem ridiculous, but have you tried repairing the drive with a 3rd party utility?

Also, I noticed since Panther that my keyboard preference has always been forced to something else. None of the updates has made a difference and re-installation did nothing different to it either.
 
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bousozoku said:
It may seem ridiculous, but have you tried repairing the drive with a 3rd party utility?

Also, I noticed since Panther that my keyboard preference has always been forced to something else. None of the updates has made a difference and re-installation did nothing different to it either.
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Hi
thanks, which 3rd party utility do you mean ?

I have the problem since I repaired permissions and set everything back to standard settings with ONYX. Now I have that problem.

Cheers
CmdrLaForge
 
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Customize Sorting...

When you change the language, you should change the script language as well, it's is under International (Landeseinstellungen, ;) ) down in that frame, there is "Customize Sorting" and select the text behavior you're expecting...

You don't have to reinstall OS X in order to get the language you want...
 
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AmigoMac said:
When you change the language, you should change the script language as well, it's is under International (Landeseinstellungen, ;) ) down in that frame, there is "Customize Sorting" and select the text behavior you're expecting...

You don't have to reinstall OS X in order to get the language you want...
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Thanks for that hint, unfortunatly - I did that already. I really changed all settings in the system preferences to german
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CmdrLaForge said:
Thanks for that hint, unfortunatly - I did that already. I really changed all settings in the system preferences to german
:(
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If you just want to work in German, Put "Deutsch" first in the list (Obvious step) , change the script behavior as I posted before, edit the list of languages you may want to show in the languages list and deselect English, Logout and Login again ... it should work ... I don't think a restart would be necessary but ...

Edit: We know the little flag is because of the KB layout, after you do the steps above, deselect the US KB in "Input Menu" / "TastaturMenü"
 
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AmigoMac said:
If you just want to work in German, Put "Deutsch" first in the list (Obvious step) , change the script behavior as I posted before, edit the list of languages you may want to show in the languages list and deselect English, Logout and Login again ... it should work ... I don't think a restart would be necessary but ...

Edit: We know the little flag is because of the KB layout, after you do the steps above, deselect the US KB in "Input Menu" / "TastaturMenü"
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Thanks a lot for your feedback. Unfortunatly. Its still not working. I tried all that. Nothing. On reboot its just back on its old settings. Really frustrating.

Cheers
 
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Rower_CPU said:
Have you tried changing sorting order of the languages?
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I guess, it's easier, clicking edit on the right and deselecting English ... pretty odd that it's not working :(

All what I've said is what I do when I want to chance the language language
 
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CmdrLaForge said:
Hi
thanks, which 3rd party utility do you mean ?

I have the problem since I repaired permissions and set everything back to standard settings with ONYX. Now I have that problem.

Cheers
CmdrLaForge
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Good thing I don't want/need Onyx. :eek: I was talking about using DiskWarrior or Tech Tool Pro 4, as I've noticed strange behaviour with damaged files at times. You could also find the language preferences file and delete it and see what happens after a logout/login.
 
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Hi,

thank you all for the help. I finally fixed it ! In the keyboard menu (under language settings) I selected OPTIONS and there sync LANGUAGE and KEYBOARD and that fixed it !!!

I really tried everything else before and nothing worked. But that sync did it !

Again - thanks for the help. It wasn't a big problem but annoying.

Cheers
CmdrLaForge
 
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