08-31-2012, 05:28 PM
I have been testing PCSX2 off and on for a long while back, but only recently started using it more often as my older computers were not powerful enough for good full-speed PS2 emulation results.
However, in all PCSX2 versions I've ever used, including the stable v1.0.0 and the current beta r5392, the language choice always fails to have the wanted result. PCSX2 always falls back on using the OS language default.
When using the first-run Wizard, it does seem to work properly at first, starting with the OS default language and then switching to another language if the user selects another one in the language choice gadget of the initial wizard screen. And that chosen language then remains active for most of the wizard session, except for its final page. There the middle button of the three buttons at the bottom right corner of the page (the button used to exit and save results) has reverted to use the OS default language. So for my case, with OS default language being Swedish and my chosen language being English (also set as OS active language), the three buttons at the page bottom will be shown as
"Back", "Avsluta", "Cancel"
instead of the proper
"Back", "Finish", "Cancel"
And when I've exited from the wizard all PCSX2 menus are in Swedish, except for a few words (I assume the Swedish translation files are missing a few entries). Inspection of the "PCSX2_ui.ini" file shows that the language choice made in the wizard was never stored there, as it still has the two entries "LanguageId=0" and "LanguageCode=default".
It's clear to me that the wizard is bugged in its handling of these things, and probably always has been, since this problem has existed in all versions I've tested...
As for myself I do have a very simple workaround to get the program to use the English language, which is simply to delete the entire "Langs" folder. So I don't really need this program bug fixed for my own use. But it is different for those who need some non-English language which is not also their OS default language. Those people have NO simple workaround available.
Best regards: dlanor
However, in all PCSX2 versions I've ever used, including the stable v1.0.0 and the current beta r5392, the language choice always fails to have the wanted result. PCSX2 always falls back on using the OS language default.
When using the first-run Wizard, it does seem to work properly at first, starting with the OS default language and then switching to another language if the user selects another one in the language choice gadget of the initial wizard screen. And that chosen language then remains active for most of the wizard session, except for its final page. There the middle button of the three buttons at the bottom right corner of the page (the button used to exit and save results) has reverted to use the OS default language. So for my case, with OS default language being Swedish and my chosen language being English (also set as OS active language), the three buttons at the page bottom will be shown as
"Back", "Avsluta", "Cancel"
instead of the proper
"Back", "Finish", "Cancel"
And when I've exited from the wizard all PCSX2 menus are in Swedish, except for a few words (I assume the Swedish translation files are missing a few entries). Inspection of the "PCSX2_ui.ini" file shows that the language choice made in the wizard was never stored there, as it still has the two entries "LanguageId=0" and "LanguageCode=default".
It's clear to me that the wizard is bugged in its handling of these things, and probably always has been, since this problem has existed in all versions I've tested...
As for myself I do have a very simple workaround to get the program to use the English language, which is simply to delete the entire "Langs" folder. So I don't really need this program bug fixed for my own use. But it is different for those who need some non-English language which is not also their OS default language. Those people have NO simple workaround available.
Best regards: dlanor