Nicolas Bazoge

Do you know of a way in Max to detect (get) the language of the OS it's running on?  

I know the way to find out the OS with the message to Max ";max getsystem" but there doesn't seem to be a message for the OS language.

The idea is to be able to adapt the sending of different OSC messages depending on the language of the user of the patch.

Hello,
Do you know of a way in Max to detect (get) the language of the OS it's running on?  

I know the way to find out the OS with the...

detecting-the-os-language-in-max

defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages

https://github.com/jeremybernstein/shell/blob/master/shell.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

but I don't know how to create the Shell object from there. Any help welcome !

https://github.com/jeremybernstein/shell/releases

Are you familiar with Javascript by any chance?  Because the cleanest solution that I can think of is to rely on node.script to have it run a javascript file, then have that retrieve the systems language.

Now, I'm not fully familiar with javascript myself, but from what I checked the [js] node is quite limited in this regard, but [node.script] is said to be quite useful to interact with your system, you can even create files with it, so getting the locale should be a no brainer.

If you're using Javascript in a browser you could use something like "navigator.systemLanguage", but I also came across commands like "Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale".

And I've noticed that Intl is indeed part of local javascript instances as well.

This seems like the cleanest way to do this.

Detecting the OS language in Max ?