Switch to English UK High Sierra

You can see, if an application has support for a language, if you open the package of the application with "Show Package Contents".

The Finder has support for UK English, for example: In the Resources is a uk.lproj with strings for UK English.

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/uk.lproj/

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

Yes, it is the only application that is spelled correctly!

Then your MacOS is behaving normally. Apple does not yet provide a set of menus and dialogues with UK spellings for MacOS, except for the iTunes app, as far as I know. There are a hundred or so languages you can put at the top of the list in system prefs/language & region, but only the 35 listed in the tech specs (where English = US English) have the menus/dialogues translated. A lot more languages are supported for time/date display only.

To ask Apple to add UK English localization, which does seem long overdue, you can use

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

High Sierra is displaying US spelling in the interface. I have set Language & Region to English (UK), but the OS still uses US spelling… Is there a new setting in HS to correct this?

The interface has not been localized for UK spelling yet, except I think for the app iTunes.

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

Can you reference that information? Do you have link? Seems a bit odd.

The tech specs for High Sierra mention only "English" on the localization list. If there were one with UK English spellings, it would normally be listed separately.

Usually I try to test by checking whether any app other than iTunes has WIndow > Minimise instead of Window > Minimize.

léonie wrote:

You can see, if an application has support for a language, if you open the package of the application with "Show Package Contents".

The Finder has support for UK English, for example: In the Resources is a uk.lproj with strings for UK English.

Have you looked at any of the strings? I tried a couple and they don't actually have UK english. Perhaps I got the wrong ones.

Perhaps I have misunderstood what you are talking about. Is it spellcheck? If so, then you have to make sure that system preferences/keyboard/text/spelling is set to uk english and not "automatic". Then possibly the same for each app in Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar.

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

the OS is still 'ize', not 'ise' where it should be.

But earlier you said that all apps, including Finder, were showing Window > Minimise (with an s). I seem to be misunderstanding something still.

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

Sorry, I think that was autocorrect! They say 'ize'. The Input Text preference also says Captilalize.

Thanks for clarifying that. If you open the iTunes app, does that one say Window > Minimise (with an s)?

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

It's not overdue, it just needs to be put back! It used to exist.

I've never seen uk english menu/dialogue localization in any version I've tested since OS X first came out, but I could have missed it. Do you know what version you last saw it in?

Nathan Jones2 wrote:

There has always been an en gb option. ....

It's a clear issue if Apple's own UK itunes version can spell/localise it correctly, but not the Finder.

There have always been lots of language options not reflected in menu translations.

A good question is why there is one app which does have British English menus when the rest do not. One possibility is that this is because Apple created iTunes for both Windows and Mac, so they made sure it would display correctly on en-gb localized windows systems and just copied the necessary strings into the Mac version. I think iTunes got this feature back on 2009.

léonie wrote:

The Finder has support for UK English, for example: In the Resources is a uk.lproj with strings for UK English

It appears that uk.lproj is actually for the Ukrainian localization. For UK English there should be an en_gb.lproj folder, but that is missing.

I am still in Mavericks, but does this help?