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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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