[OSX] Forcing International settings on locked-down accounts (4)

1 Name: Sakurina!PUu2Q.Nazg : 2006-09-29 14:08 ID:8lZ003pP

I'm not sure if anybody here is into preference tweaking, but I'm sure someone could help me. Here at our school, we used to be able to access the International preference pane, but they somehow decided to turn it off.

This pisses me off somewhat as now apps are all in French and it redirects me to the French-language Google whenever I search for anything on Safari. What I'm getting to is: does anyone know if it's possible to edit a preference file in ~/Library that will make my account appear in English as well as restore the US English keyboard/Kotoeri if possible?

I know some .plists are encrypted in some kind of odd format, luckily I can always change it at home using Property List Editor and download the new file here at school next class.

2 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc : 2006-09-29 17:15 ID:cSeb/qKb

OS (space) X.

More information, please. Are you an American in France? Otherwise, why would they set everything to French?

If that's the case, perhaps your best bet would be to contact the sysadmins at that school and ask them to set up a user account that uses English by default. A lot simpler than "hacking" the system and less potential for screwing things up and/or getting in trouble if you get caught. At my uny, the Macs were set up with English settings for the default user, but if you logged out, you could log in again as a user with French, Spanish, Arabic, etc language settings. (This sometimes led to confusion when someone would use one of these accounts and then not log out when they're done, so the next person to sit down at that Mac finds all the menus and stuff in French.)

3 Name: Sakurina!PUu2Q.Nazg : 2006-09-29 20:15 ID:Heaven

I'm in the province of Quebec in Canada, the rejected stupid French-speaking province.

Contacting the sysadmin is a problem as the sysadmin who knows stuff about Macs left last year and now NOBODY knows anything about how Macs work. I could do it personally but they're probably afraid of security and shit.

I'm just pissed at how we used to have access to most prefpanes in the past and now we can only view Accounts and Desktop/Screen Saver. I miss Japanese text entry too.

4 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-09-29 21:06 ID:Heaven

> I could do it personally but they're probably afraid of security and shit.

you could try asking them... they might let you if you explain to them what you want to do...

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