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Apparently some applications (at least older ones) do not like it when certain languages with non-Latin alphabets are set as the first preferred language in OS X.

ImageReady 7.0 one day started dying immediately upon startup -- no error or anything. In the course of troubleshooting, I discovered that the Adobe updaters for Photoshop 7.0.1 and Illustrator 10.0.3 crashed after authenticating. A look at the latter's crash log revealed a reference to /System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Encodings -> libCyrillicConverter.dylib.

Sure enough, I'd set Russian as my preferred language. Setting it back to English in the International preference pane and restarting eliminated all the crashes -- although now I don't get Adium in Russian, sadly. Setting the system language back to Russian brought the crashing right back.

Of course, there are probably about two people in the whole world running ImageReady 7 on Mac OS X with Russian as the first system language. Given the possibility that other application and language combinations might behave this way, however, it seemed worthy of a heads-up for anyone chasing down weird crashes.
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Resolve various crashes caused by language settings
Authored by: Swordfish on Jan 20, '06 11:32:15AM

did you try setting your system language as russian but setting the language of imageready to english? you can do so by getting info on the app, then unchecking all languages except english (under the "languages" section).



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Resolve various crashes caused by language settings
Authored by: theodour on Jan 20, '06 01:00:40PM

I still crash with an operating system error (-1407), even after turning off all languages but English.

I've resolved it by running ImageReady 7 in classic, but I hate that solution!

Oh well. When I can afford to upgrade, it will be at CS 10 or something ... and it will read your thoughts ... and macs will run on hydrogen powered quantum chips (though still powered by Intel).



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Resolve various crashes caused by language settings
Authored by: fds on Jan 20, '06 11:24:13PM

You can also tweak the list of languages on an application-by-application basis, although I'm not sure if this would work with non-Cocoa apps.

For example:
defaults write com.apple.mail AppleLanguages '("en-US")'

This will make Apple Mail think your preferred system language is US English, regardless of what you actually set there.



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Resolve various crashes caused by language settings
Authored by: Jetalone on Jan 21, '06 05:25:33PM

Huh, it's interesting that I came upon this hint just now; I had been trying to troubleshoot a nasty crash with Photoshop CS2 for weeks now and finally solved it the other day.

Turns out that (on my system anyway, 15" AlBook w/10.4.4, haven't tried other machines yet) if I have a keyboard layout selected which uses a non-roman script, Photoshop CS2 unexpectedly quits at startup.

Never thought this would be the culprit since it was never an issue with CS1.

I often use Japanese input, so I have both U.S. English and Japanese keyboard layouts available to me in the Input Menu. But if I happen to be switched to one of the Japanese scripts when I launch Photoshop, it explodes, reliably. Once in a while it will start up and switch my keyboard back to English; most of the time it simply barfs.

So I have to make sure to have my keyboard switched to U.S. English before launching PS. Annoying, yes, but I'm just glad I finally figured out this was the root cause; the crashes had been dogging me for weeks.



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Resolve various crashes caused by language settings
Authored by: afb on Jan 21, '06 07:51:25PM
I can't say that this has happened to me, but I do use the keyboard layout menu often. Most of the time it's set to the US Extended layout (which has lots more diacriticals than the standard US layout).

Recently, though, I was trying to type something in Hebrew (not that I speak it or anything). It worked, but when I switched back to the US Extended layout, it kept typing in Hebrew. I tried logging out, trashing prefs, removing the Hebrew keyboard from the menu, and still the US extended keyboard setting typed in Hebrew. Luckily, I thought to remove it from the menu; after doing this and adding it back, the problem was fixed. (Now that I think about it, I ought to report this bug to Apple ...)

Also, a lot of times I find that the menu will want to stay in a Japanese keyboard for some reason. Quitting all open apps seems to fix this.

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