Re: [eclipse-dev] How to make the Mac generated menu entries language sp

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Nikita.

The same problem was reported for https://github.com/buchen/portfolio/

https://github.com/buchen/portfolio/issues/2652#issuecomment-1020562104
indicates that this is a problem with SWT.

Quote:
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When i look at Display.java from
org.eclipse.swt.cocoa.macosx.aarch64_3.117.0.v20210906-0842.jar the
code searches for a DefaultApp.nib file (Line 5657) to create the
system menu. But the current MacOS Monterey doesn't provide this file.
This happened in the past with older versions of MacOS (see
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=520176 ).

In Display.java there is a fallback, when the DefaultApp.nib is not
found. ( createMainMenu() ). This fallback uses
SWT.getMessage("Preferences...") and looks in the properties file of
the language pack (org.eclipse.swt.nl_de_4.21.0.v20210925020001.jar).
But there is no entry for the key "Preferences...". And so the english
text is used.

I don't know if I'm right, but to me this looks like a problem of SWT
and/or MacOS.
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What do you think?

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:32 AM Nikita Nemkin <nikita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Lars,
>
> You could try the -AppleLanguage "(de)" command line argument to set
> the language of native localized strings. Note the parentheses, the
> value is actually a list of preferred languages.
>
> -nl won't work because there is no API to set the current application
> language on macOS.
> Instead, the current language is derived from a list of preferred user
> languages (the AppleLanguage setting) and a list of languages that the
> main bundle supports (the CFBundleLocalizations key). The read-only
> API for this is Bundle.main.preferredLocalizations.first.
>
> AppleLanguage can be set globally and per application in the System
> Preferences or overridden on the command line like the above example.
>
> Another related setting is AppleLocale, which affects number/date
> formatting etc. It also can be overridden on the command line, for
> example: -AppleLocale de_DE.
>
> I believe command line overrides are intended for localization testing
> only and shouldn't be used in production.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 5:25 PM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We tried Alex suggestions with the help of the
> > https://github.com/buchen/fix-info-plist-maven-plugin plug-in and the
> > generated info.plist contains the following entries:
> >
> > <key>CFBundleLocalizations</key>
> >     <array>
> >         <string>English</string>
> >         <string>French</string>
> >         <string>German</string>
> >     </array>
> >
> > See attachment for the complete file.
> >
> > We also tried with the language keys, as we saw that
> > https://www.portfolio-performance.info/ uses these keys. Unfortunately
> > this app also does not translate the About, Preferences, Hide, Show
> > all, Services. See attached screenshot.
> >
> > <key>CFBundleLocalizations</key>
> >     <array>
> >         <string>en</string>
> >         <string>fr</string>
> >         <string>de</string>
> >     </array>
> >
> > For testing we added the "-nl de" as a fixed program argument.
> >
> > Does anyone know what we are missing?
> >
> > Best regards, Lars
> >
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