#27 Make app language user-selectable not automatic based on OS language

[Fernando Cassia]

For some reason the app seems to detect that the language of my OS (WINXP SP3 in my case) is SPANISH,so it loads the app in Spanish language. This I don´t want!. I don´t have any control of the language of the OS installed on this machine, but I run all my apps in English language. PLEASE, make language of the app user-selectable. At least, on the options/settings screen there should be a checkmark labeled "[ ] use the same language as the underlying OS" and if that option is unchecked, a drop-down listing all the languages, so that the user can manually select English (in my case) or whatever other language the user wants.

[Davide Bucci]

The fact that the locale is not recognized correctly is rather strange...
In any case, you can specify a given locale via the command line interface.

Instead of calling FidoCadJ with the following command:

java -jar fidocadj.jar

you might do as follows:

java -jar fidocadj.jar -l it

and the locale will be forced to italian.
I think you can somehow modify the menu association in order that this is done automatically when you use the graphical user interface, but I can not give precise instructions since I do not use Windows.

[Davide Bucci]

Just to complete the previous message, here is the list of the two letters codes you can use for the version 0.24.1 of FidoCadJ:
en (english)
es (spanish)
fr (french)
it (italian)
nl (dutch)
zh (chinese)