Comments on: Forcing English language in nVidia Control Panel http://blog.ralphje.net/2008/09/forcing-english-language-in-nvidia-control-panel The personal blog of Ralph Broenink Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:58:55 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ralph Broenink http://blog.ralphje.net/2008/09/forcing-english-language-in-nvidia-control-panel/comment-page-1#comment-308 Ralph Broenink Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:44:16 +0000 http://blog.ralphje.net/?p=235#comment-308 Yes, I changed that after the 'maatjes'-horror, but it <strong>shouldn't</strong> use this setting to determine my local settings, as it's meant to be used as a fallback for the character encoding and not for language settings. For Dutch vs. English, there aren't much differences, but I can imagine German people still want to use their ß's and ü's and it might be possible that these characters aren't in the English ISO8859-sets. Furthermore, your regional settings should only be used as your format for date, currency etc. and not for your default language. As far as I'm concerned, only system language should determine your program language, but maybe that isn't accurate enough either. So, a classic drop-down box should be still in place. Above all, nVidia's control center, even when you've downloaded 'English-only', will be in Dutch. Strange, isn't it? Yes, I changed that after the ‘maatjes’-horror, but it shouldn’t use this setting to determine my local settings, as it’s meant to be used as a fallback for the character encoding and not for language settings. For Dutch vs. English, there aren’t much differences, but I can imagine German people still want to use their ß’s and ü’s and it might be possible that these characters aren’t in the English ISO8859-sets.

Furthermore, your regional settings should only be used as your format for date, currency etc. and not for your default language. As far as I’m concerned, only system language should determine your program language, but maybe that isn’t accurate enough either. So, a classic drop-down box should be still in place.

Above all, nVidia’s control center, even when you’ve downloaded ‘English-only’, will be in Dutch. Strange, isn’t it?

]]> By: Peter-Paul http://blog.ralphje.net/2008/09/forcing-english-language-in-nvidia-control-panel/comment-page-1#comment-302 Peter-Paul Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:13:33 +0000 http://blog.ralphje.net/?p=235#comment-302 There's actually a much neater solution. In your Regional and Language settings, instead of choosing the default Dutch format, pick an English one and manually adjust the currency, decimal point, date format and time format. That way, English will still be the default language for your "region". You can still select The Netherlands as your location, but that is, of course, something completely different then a "region". :P Also, why do you have Dutch as the default "language for non-Unicode programs"? I thought you changed this to English after the horror of Spore in Dutch ("maatjes!" :D ). There’s actually a much neater solution. In your Regional and Language settings, instead of choosing the default Dutch format, pick an English one and manually adjust the currency, decimal point, date format and time format. That way, English will still be the default language for your “region”.

You can still select The Netherlands as your location, but that is, of course, something completely different then a “region”. :P

Also, why do you have Dutch as the default “language for non-Unicode programs”? I thought you changed this to English after the horror of Spore in Dutch (”maatjes!” :D ).

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