Lithuanian language support in ArchiCAD on Mac OS X

[Dalius]

Hi, we have an old problem with Lithuanian language characters (ąčęėįšųūž) using them in ArchiCAD software on Mac OS X. Maybe it could be solved one day in the 21st century?

When we select Lithuanian as the first language, and English as the second one in System Preferences > Language & Text > Language, then Lithuanian characters become question marks in ArchiCAD system (dates, layers, stories, sections, elevations, etc.).

If we select Lithuanian as the first language, choose Hungarian or Polish as the second, and make English as the third one, then everything becomes OK and all Lithuanian characters (ąčęėįšųūž) appear in ArchiCAD system. However then we have another problem — all other programs change their menu to Hungarian or Polish language, for example, Mail, Skype, TextEdit, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Pages, Numbers, Evernote, App Store, Photo Booth, iTunes, iMovie… etc.

Where is a problem? Is it a bug? Why Lithuanian language is not supported in ArchiCAD on Mac OS X? I get this questions almost every day for 10 years.

[Marton Kiss]

Dalius wrote:
Where is a problem? Is it a bug? Why Lithuanian language is not supported in ArchiCAD on Mac OS X? I get this questions almost every day for 10 years.

Thanks for calling attention on this, we will check this to see what can be done to fully support all Lithuanian characters.

[Marton Kiss]

Dalius,

we checked it here and there is a workaround that is available right away. Needs a little bit of manual work, but should result good characters:
- right (ctrl) click on the ArchiCAD.app and select show package content
- drop Info.plist e.g. into TextEditor to edit it
- search for CFBundleLocalizations and change <string>it</string> to <string>It</string>
- save it and start ArchiCAD

As for a long term solution, we are going to address this for ArchiCAD 17.

Marton

[Dalius]

Marton wrote:
- search for CFBundleLocalizations and change <string>it</string> to <string>It</string>

Thank you, Marton. Great!!! It works!!!

One small clarification: <string>it</string> must be changed to <string>lt</string> (you wrote It).

[Marton Kiss]

Dalius wrote:

Thank you, Marton. Great!!! It works!!!

I am really glad this helped and thanks for the clarification.

Marton