The forum

Bad language error

Author	Replies
Overtime	Wednesday 10 April 2013 at 22:00
Overtime	Hi all, I'm trying to get playonmac to work on my system. When I try to run it, I get the following error: playonmac cannot run because of bad language settings on you computer. To solve the problem, open a terminal and type: "defaults write -g AppleLocale en_US" Now, I don't like writing commands into the terminal unless I know exactly what they do. Can someone pls  tell me what this does, and how to undo it if I want to. (I think im using UK english, so would that be -> en_UK?). Before posting, I did try to figure out what the command did. To get an idea of what my current default was, I typed: "defaults read -g AppleLocale" and got: "The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleLocale) does not exist" I don't think this is normal right? Please help, thanks.
Quentin PÂRIS	Wednesday 10 April 2013 at 23:31
Quentin PÂRIS	This command sets the variable that does not exist. Put UK if you prefer ;-)
Overtime	Thursday 11 April 2013 at 11:31
Overtime	ah ok - that was easy then! It worked. Thanks!
cursed	Friday 9 October 2020 at 18:09
cursed	Hey I'm having that same problem where the message "playonmac cannot run because of bad language settings on you computer" pops up, I typed defaults write -g AppleLocale en_US in terminal and this is the message I got :   Rep argument is not a dictionary Defaults have not been changed.   Can someone help me please?

This site allows content generated by members, and we promptly remove any content that infringes copyright according to our Terms of Service. To report copyright infringement, please send a notice to dmcayonlinux.com