<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:30 PM, <a href="mailto:jonetsu@teksavvy.com">jonetsu@teksavvy.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonetsu@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">jonetsu@teksavvy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 07:41:48 +0200,<br>
Ralf Mardorf <<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>> wrote :<br>
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> Learning rudimentary English for software usage is easier, than to use<br>
> several applications in another language, than the default language,<br>
> wich usually is English.<br>
<br>
This is a (adj of choice) over-simplification. For instance, I never<br>
chose to have Ardour in French (although I like it). It is the<br>
operating system that's set up for French. Software packages detect<br>
that and react accordingly. And favorably I must say.<br>
<br>
I don't know about Windows these days but there was a time where one<br>
would have to buy a specific language version. Not so with Linux.<br>
Never has been. That's one aspect of freedom of choice.<br>
<br>
Now, that characters, as Robin mentioned, are not handled properly by<br>
software is another matter and should be fixed. Either allow so-called<br>
'extended' characters and handle them, or do not allow them at all.<br>
Nowadays this is I think mostly taken care of in libraries used.<br>
<br>
I mentioned the use of Ardour in French as a joke for the sourc eof the<br>
problem, but I hope this is not the case. I guess I could test it by<br>
setting the proper environment variables.<br>
<br>
I'm not using French characters in track names or any other input<br>
field. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am 99% certain that the problems with "special" characters is limited to the OS X version of Ardour 3. <br></div></div><br></div></div>