Hi. I am from Tokyo, a Japanese native, using Japanese language.
I find it a little messy with Japanese localization in Scrivener 3 and want to use it in English mode. Unfortunately, however, there is no “English” in the list of Scrivener 3 language preferences.
Since I chose System Default as the preferred language in Scrivener 3 and my OS-wide system default language is set at Japanese, Scrivener 3 launches in Japanese mode quite naturally. I want it to launch in English mode. How can I set Scrivener 3’s language preference as English?
Setting English as the OS-wide language preference is an overkill since I want all the other applications than Scrivener 3 to launch in Japanese mode.
Thanks in advance. Oh, and happy Valentine’s Day, incidentally BTW
On my system, the dropdown in the Scrivener -> Preferences -> Language pane lists System Default first, then the rest in the above order. What are you seeing?
Hi, thanks for your reply, Katherine. Results first: the problem solved!
My language preference’s listed items among Pop-Up menu in Scrivener 3.1.5 (build 1228) are:
システムデフォルト (System default)
Translation (of which I don’t know what it is and which does not seem to have been listed in your Pop-up menu)
フランス語 (French)
ドイツ語 (German)
スペイン語 (Spanish)
イタリア語 (Italian)
日本語 (Japanese)
中国語 (Chinese)
韓国語 (Korean)
ポルトガル語 (Portugese)
スウェーデン語 (Swedish)
and no 英語 (English) in the Pop-up menu.
While you have “English,” I don’t, but instead I have “Translation” which you don’t have.
So, I tried “Translation,” relaunched Scrivener 3 and then voila! System language has changed to English! Silly me, I hadn’t tried it up till the time when I posted my question in the first place.
IMHO, “Translation” should read “英語” (English) BTW.
