Language Change

living in Japan, i keep my OS in Japanese but sometimes need to change it back to English (like when im doing something REALLY important and wanna make sure i dont screw something up, or if a non japanese speaking friend or family member is visiting...). Going into the control panel and into the international settings can be a pain if you have to switch often though....

How would i write an apple script that could do this for me? dragging the Japanese above the English and vise versa....

is this possible?
thx

Hi there and welcome !

yes this should be possible...

I shall do you a little movie...how to later tonight !

regards

Ric

GREAT!
take your time. ive dealt with it for a while now but i really wanted to learn some applescript and i was that this would be the kind of problem that applescript could handle. thx!!!

hey ric, any progress on that yet?
thx.....

hey ric, any progress on that yet?
thx.....

hey ric, any progress on the language change script yet? i havent tried it with automator yet, but i might have at it right now....
thanks

I figured it out.
I set up an automator action of "Run Shell Script" with the shell set to bin/bash/
And I pasted this code into it:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages "(ja, en)"

I made another one with the languages reversed:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages "(en, ja)"

i didnt worry about the other languages since these are the only two i use.
i saved each workflow (made of the single automator action) as a seperate application and i keep them in my dock....

handy...

congradulations self!
thanks self!
you're welcome self!

Well done you !

Apologies, for my lack of participation...life sometimes gets in the way !

Thanks for posting your solution.

best wishes

Ric