Re: [Subclipse-users] Human language selection?

Mark-

Thank you for your help. With your suggestions I was able to verify that
there are (at least) three ways to solve this problem. I've reproduced
them here in hopes that they will help others:

1. Change the Windows locale settings. Under English Windows this control
panel is called "Regional and Language Options". The locale can be
modified by changing the language in "Standards and formats".
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.1.1.html

2. Prefix the "-nl" parameter to the eclipse.ini file in the eclipse
application root. My install came with a default eclipse.ini containing:
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m

The -vmargs argument must be last in the eclipse.ini file so I added:
-nl
en_us

at the beginning of the file.
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/launcher.html

3. Add the "-nl" parameter to the eclipse shortcut. For example
"...eclipse.exe" -nl en_us

http://help.eclipse.org/help21/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm

The latter options in this list override the earlier options. (i.e. #3
takes precedence over #2, etc.) I went with #2 as it seemed the most
appropriate way to fix the eclipse settings without mucking up any of my
other apps.

Hope this helps other people.

> Subclipse includes a Japanese translation. Eclipse will automatically use
> it if the Java locale is set to ja. Java sets the locale based on the OS
> settings.
>
> 1. It seems like you ought to be able to set your Windows locale to
> English. I think this is in the Control Panel under International
> Settings?
>
> 2. If you cannot do that, you can explicitly set the Java locale to
> English. I do not know exactly how you do it, but it should be setting
> some Java System property. Let's just take a guess and assume the
> property
> name is "java.locale". What you would do would be to add something like
> the following to the Eclipse shortcut:
>
> -vmargs -Djava.locale=en
>
> I think there is also an eclipse.ini file where you can enter these
> arguments now.
>
> Once the Java locale is English, that will be what you see. The Japanese
> translations for Eclipse itself are not automatically installed, otherwise
> all of Eclipse would be in Japanese.
>
> Mark
>
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