Localize the Apple menu

Oct 12, '01 02:34:26PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

ok, this is great stuff, i hope developers will read this and change their apps accordingly...

when you run mac os x in any of its localized versions, the apple menu switches from your preferred language to english if you happen to start a program which is not yet localized.

i just found out that by simply creating a folder inside "/contents/resources" (within the application) and naming it "Yourlanguage.lproj" - where "Yourlanguage" is ...uhm... your language ;) ... the apple menu shows up in your language (in the "patched" application, that is).

now, i don't want to patch all my english-only apps just to add consistency to my german system. but i do think all developers should simply add all language-folders to their apps, even if they don't have translated resources and thus have to leave these folders empty...

[Editor's note: Interesting. I tested this and it worked as described - I switched my International panel language setting to German, and then put an empty "German.lproj" folder inside a non-localized program called "Flame" ... when I launched it again, I had a German Apple menu!]

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