Resolve various crashes caused by language settings

Jan 20, '06 05:05:00AM

Contributed by: xeroply

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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