Display name first for birthdays in Spanish iCal
Sep 13, '06 07:30:01AM
Contributed by: elmimmo
In the Spanish localized version of iCal, the automatic birthday calendar you can import live from your Address Book data (look in iCal's preferences to do that), adds birthday events with the title "Cumpleaños de name" (compared to English "name's birthday"). While grammatically correct, this hides the names of the people while in week and month view due to the limited screen space for each cell -- you have to click on each event to see whose birthday each one is. The color of the event already tells you it's a birthday, so it would be more useful to have the name first so it does not get truncated.
You can change iCal's Spanish behaviour by following these steps:
- Make sure you quit iCal before anything else.
- Look for iCal's icon in the Finder.
- Control-click on it and choose Mostrar contenido del paquete (in English, Show package contents) from the pop-up menu.
- Got to the Contents -> Resources -> Spanish.lproj folder.
- Make a backup of Core.strings in that folder, just in case you screw up.
- Open Core.strings in TextEdit
- Look for the text "Cumpleaños de %@" and change it to something like "%@ Cumpleaños", and save the changes.
Done. Just launch iCal again, and enjoy being able to know whose birthdays are coming just by having one single glance at the month or week view. Note that the changes might revert whenever you apply an OS update. If instead of that, you would like this to be the iCal's default Spanish behaviour, tell Apple.
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