[comp.soft-sys.stat.spss] Chart Builder - language of the interface

[Ben Pfaff]

Some information on how language support is supposed to work in
SPSS.  (I, at least, was not sure about this.)

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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 07:00:07 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 2, 2:20 am, SFC <address@hidden> wrote:
> I found out the cause of the "problem" (or feature?).
>
> I have locale set to zh_tw.Big5. When I changed it back to English,
> the dialog boxes of chart editor are in English again. If I changed
> locale back to zh_tw.Big5 again, then some labels in the chart editor
> dialog boxes are in Chinese.
>
> This is annoying, as I previously believe that locale setting affects
> only non-unicode data files, and not the interface. Anyway, changing
> the locale can solve the problem.
>
> --
> Shu Fai

The locale setting should not affect the output language or the user
interface language.  In v 16 there may have been some cases where
locale settings leaked into language settings in the Java code in the
chart engine or the chart editor.  As far as I know, these problems
have all been resolved in V 17.

HTH,
Jon Peck

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