lunedì 24 novembre 2014

OS X, how to launch an application in a different language than your default system language

Sometimes it can be useful to launch a particular application in a language that is not the one you choose when you first set up your account.

In order to do that momentarily, let's say I want to execute Preview in English instead of Italian, open Terminal and type the following command (or copy and paste the line below)

/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview -AppleLanguages '(en-US)' &

The ampersand at the end of the line puts the execution of Preview in background, returning to the Terminal's prompt immediately.

It is also possible to always launch an application in another language. For the purpose of this example, Spanish. Open Terminal and type (or copy and paste) the following line
 
defaults write com.apple.Preview AppleLanguages '("es")'

To revert back to the default language, the command to issue into Terminal is 

defaults delete com.apple.Preview AppleLanguages


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