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Hey, my NeXT won't speak french!

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From: Pascal Gaudette
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:21
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I really like the fact that with 3.0, I now have most of my
interface in french (except for online help and spell checking,
but that's another story).

Anyway, today I was printing something and my printer ran out of
paper. Up comes the warning panel: "Il n'y a plus de papier dans
l'imprimante." And a wonderful voice tells me: "Your printer is out
of paper." What!? :-/

Hey! If french is my main language (and my system language,
for that matter) then my NeXT should give me the warning in
french! I checked /usr/lib/NextPrinter/French.lproj,
and the sounds there are indeed french sounds. But they are not the
ones who are played. What gives?

I thought, hey, the print daemon must run under the user "daemon",
so I fired up UserManager, and told it that daemon's language is
French. Didn't help. In fact the warning still comes in english, but
now it seems like the machine only plays the sound when the Alert
Panel goes away! (Perhaps daemon wasn't meant to have a language! :-)

I also tried changing root's language to no avail.

BTW, does anyone know *where* the language info of a user is
in the netinfo database? It appears in UserManager, but when
I open a user in NetInfoMgr (to remove the language for daemon),
it doesn't appear anywhere...

Perhaps I should write to bug@next.com. Actually, I think I'll
cc this message to them.

Anybody got any ideas, clues, thoughts?
--
Pascal "The Rascal" Gaudette       pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca
MacNUG president                      | *NeXTmail encouraged* 
graduate student, McMaster university | Je ne suis pas infaillible.
Physics and astronomy dep.            | Vive le Quebec LIBRE!
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