Change GUI Language

[federico-pepe]

Is it possible to add a dropdown menu where I can choose the language of Sonic Pi?

[samaaron]

@federico-pepe Sonic Pi's GUI only supports one language - that of Sonic Pi itself - a DSL based on top of Ruby. Which other languages did you want support for?

[federico-pepe]

Hi @samaaron I'm sorry. I meant translations. I completed the italian translation of the GUI months ago on Weblate but I'm still not able to select it in Sonic Pi. I was wondering when it'll be available.

[samaaron]

Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

This was something I suggested to @hzulla a while back when he started doing all the fab translation stuff. He said it wasn't typical. However, I still think it would be a nice feature.

For now, you just need to change your system language to Italian and reboot Sonic Pi - it should then appear with Italian translation :-)

[federico-pepe]

Unfortunately the GUI language doesn't change if I change the system language (but the tutorials do).

**He said it wasn't typical. ** really?
I am german but i have all my stuff setup in english, and it really really REALLY bugs me if an application assumes i want the gui to be in any other language then the one i use everything else in.

So i would be really really happy if i could change the language to the one i prefer or stop this "system is setup in <insert language here> but i choose to display the gui in some other language" nonsense.

[samaaron]

I'd like to see sonic pi have a language chooser at some point. If anyone would like to have a go at prototyping it, that would be ace.

is there a config file one could use until a menu is implemented?

[mrdevis]

+1 for a language scope per application

[mrdevis]

ps, my workaround on OSX until now:
rename the language file in the app ::
right click -> open package
navigate to ./etc/doc/lang/

if you do not want german, than rename the german file:
something like "sonic-pi-tutorial-BOBO.po"
The app opens and does not find the german language file, then defaults to english.

Ugly, but it works (until the next update).
Cheers, Jeroen

[samaaron]

@mrdevis ha, nice one!

I'm unfortunately battling for funding right now, so features like this are sadly way down in my priority list. I was hoping that as Sonic Pi grew more popular, I'd get more financial support, help, but the inverse appears to be the case at the moment :-(

[mrdevis]

just downloaded and it looks good. I come from SC, and I am investigating some new (easier) front ends. I will definitely have a deeper look into it... Thanks for all the work!!

[MichaPau]

For any reason I can't do that on my Windows7 machine. (Sonic Pi version 3.1)
Switching from French to English...

I renamed the [...]fr.po file in /etc/doc/lang/
I deleted the fr folder in /doc/generated/

but i still get the French tutorial...

I didn't find something else corresponding to any localization data

French is a wonderful language but on computers I really can't stand it...
(and unfortunately I can't change the system language - for Windows a professional licence would be needed)

As a workaround I open the tutorial external in the Atom Editor which has a Markdown preview mode...