<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">At least until such time as I need Greek letters in diagrams, I fixed the Inkscape problem by temporarily deleting Greek from the OS System Preferences > Language & Region “Preferred languages”; opening Inkscape, whose menus are now in English; and in the Inkscape preferences, change the language from System to the particular one I wanted, namely, English; then in OS System Preferences added Greek back as a secondary language.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 13, 2017, at 3:26 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Murray Eisenberg <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">BUT… all the menus for Inkscape are in Greek. (I’ll post that as a separate query.)</blockquote></div><br class="">That's been reported before and seems to be an unexpected interaction involving how recent OS X's multiple language support is made visible to BSD APIs (as distinct from Cocoa APIs). IIRC the workaround is to only have one language selected in the Language prefpane.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank" class="">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div class="">unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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