It used to be in Russian, but after I reinstalled Lion two months ago (on top of existing files without erasing) I now see it's in English all the time. I want it as before, how do I change its name to the Russian one permanently?
Mac OS X (10.7.5), MacBook Pro 15.4 mid-2012
Hi, Leroy
Thanks for your reply, however I was unable to set up the Russian since there wasn't any option for it listed when I executed the command.
scrutinizer82 wrote:
Hi, Leroy
Thanks for your reply, however I was unable to set up the Russian since there wasn't any option for it listed when I executed the command.
You can see more in terminal copy & paste:
Man languagesetup | More
Russian according to the language ISO-639 code is either: ru or rus
I see now:
#17 translates
Make Russian language is the primary language
Unfortunately man page is very short with a few details not making much difference.
Here's what I see:
From the terminal #17 is not your preferred?
And here's the result of the command sudo anguagesetup
just 15 of them and no Russian
Where was this machine bought? it is possible there is a built in restriction.
What happens if you put in terminal the english command ? Is this possible??
sudo languagesetup
I see now that is what you did.
I bought it in Lithuania at an Apple Reseller Store. I hadn't had to use that language setup function but I can assure you that till the last reinstallation of Lion (I bought it with Lion prei-enstalled by default at the end of 2013) Login screen all was with Russian guest user account's name along with all the buttons on the login screen. I reinstalled Lion two months ago and am having this issue since then.
I am afraid I can help no further with this issue, so sorry.
You can sign up for a free Develops account with your same Apple ID to start a conversation with Apple engineers, you will get a response.
Bug Reporter https://bugreport.apple.com/ which I encourage you to do, it is painless to sign up 😉
or
Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/ No response from this submission, but your voice will be heard
If it is possible to restore form a Time Machine backup previous to the conundrum, you could regain your preferred guest log-in Lang.
all the best
A one more strange thing is that the guest user's name is in Russian both when I'm in my own admin account and in menu drop downs, unfolding when hitting Apple icon in Guest User account and my username's one in my user account. My account:
Guest user's account:
Here it's in English and Guest User icon in the menu bar is briefly seen in Russian on login before changing itself to the English immediately afterwards.
Ok, much appreciated I'll try.
I was finally able to find out the solution browsing these forums. In a thread started as far back as in 2009 a user posted this command that happens to be the correct and ultimate one.
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Language\ Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language\ Chooser
It will initiate language selection tool, the one that appears at the initial steps of setting up OS X right after it has been installed and invokes GUI window with all the available languages, including the one I needed. Once you choose it and hit Return, this language gets assigned system-wide including other user account on your Mac. Though clever, it's certainly not that simple as Apple declares it to be, and not user-friendly, not speaking of installation glitches causing such mess.
scrutinizer82 wrote:
I was finally able to find out the solution browsing these forums. In a thread started as far back as in 2009 a user posted this command that happens to be the correct and ultimate one.
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Language\ Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language\ Chooser
It will initiate language selection tool, the one that appears at the initial steps of setting up OS X right after it has been installed and invokes GUI window with all the available languages, including the one I needed. Once you choose it and hit Return, this language gets assigned system-wide including other user account on your Mac. Though clever, it's certainly not that simple as Apple declares it to be, and not user-friendly, not speaking of installation glitches causing such mess.
Good computing scrutinizer82
How to change the name "Guest user" from English to my native language?
