Changing Celestia's language

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LukeCEL
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Changing Celestia's language

Post #1by LukeCEL » 27.02.2020, 21:30

Hi everyone,

This seems like a silly question. How do I change the language displayed by Celestia?

Celestia has a bunch of .po files and .lproj directories, but I have no idea how to use them.

Thanks,
Luke

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Post #2by SevenSpheres » 27.02.2020, 22:18

onetwothree explained how to change Celestia's language here. It didn't work for me with Celestia 1.7.0 - and still doesn't - but I just tested it with 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 and it does work there. Looks like this is another bug.

Edit: Actually it's the Qt version that it doesn't work with; the native Windows 1.7.0 does work. No idea about the Mac version.
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Post #3by LukeCEL » 27.02.2020, 23:35

I couldn't figure out how to do that, but I did find out that by changing my language in System Preferences on my Mac, it automatically uses that language. I never knew that!


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