corradoboy

Markus, one of my work Macs is running TextEdit in German (I think) for some reason. I've had a look around Preferences (Indstillinger ?) to no avail and cannot find where the problem is. System Prefs doesn't seem to have any wrong settings either, with International only listing English languages. Any ideas ?

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Markus

"International" in System Prefs is where you would change the OS language. Make sure that English is the first item at the top of the list, then reboot and see if that helps.

If not then try this:

Login as the root user then go into /System/Library/CoreServices/ and run Language Chooser.app and select English, then reboot.

For info on how to enable the root user, have a read of this article.

corradoboy

'English, British English, US English, Canadian English, Aus English' are the only languages in the list, in that order.

Tried the language .app to no avail either.

Markus

Deffo logged in as root when you run Language Choice app? It HAS to be done as root user otherwise it won't actually change anything.

Ok, go into International and click Edit List button, see what's listed there. If there is a "Deutsch" option then click the checkbox to enable it and click OK.

Pop it to the top of the list, reboot, then go in, put English at the top of the list, reboot, see if that does anything.

corradoboy

This is what I get when I 'Quit'. It might not be German though

Markus

I don't know why, but that looks Swedish to me.

What about the menus in TE, do they have English text in them? What about in the Finder, do the menus there have English text in them?

What you might want to do is grab a copy of TextEdit from another machine running the same OS version, delete the existing copy which is doing this and replace it with the one copied from another machine. This is if it's just text edit doing the odd language thing. If it's the Finder then it's probably the system language which is messed up somehow.