Re: [Eliot-general] Not installing in French

[James Preen]

Merci Olivier,
both your suggestions worked independently of each other. I'm still
not sure how to tell what LANG is being reported by windows 7; I tried
creating a locale directory called fr_ca, but the menus still
defaulted to "en". I have left the program with en's contents replaced
by that of fr, thanks again.

With regards my second question, I was hoping that I could somehow set
it so that when Eliot is launched it remembers the settings from the
previous game and will start with a computer (or computers) at the
same level as last time. Is that feasible?

 Thank you again for your help,
  Best wishes,
       James


On 27 December 2011 14:34, Olivier Teuliere <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 17:55, James Preen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Bonjour, many thanks for your excellent program!
>>
>> I was trying to install version 1.13 for my elderly mother-in-law who
>> speaks very little English, but despite her Windows 7 being completely
>> in French (Canadian) all of the menus are in English, unlike your
>> screenshots which show French exists...
>>
>> Is there an easy way to change this, s'il vous plaît?
>
> There must be a problem with language detection (maybe because it is a
> canadian locale?).
> Anyway, here are 2 different workarounds that you can try:
> 1) Define an environment variable named LANG with value "fr", then
> restart Eliot. If it works, you may want to do that in a .bat calling
> Eliot, instead of doing it globally.
> 2) In the Eliot directory, overwrite the "locale/en" folder with a
> copy of the "locale/fr" one.
> I would appreciate if you could tell me which workaround (if any)
> solves the problem.
>
>> ps. I have also been unable to set the default computer opponent to be
>> not quite so good, is that possible too?
>
> Yes, just change the level of the computer in the "New game" dialog,
> by double-clicking on the "100" level of the Eliot player (in the
> table), and setting it to a lower value. You can consider the level as
> a rough percentage. For example, a level of 60 means that, at every
> turn, the computer tries to score exactly 60% of the best possible
> score (if not possible, it will play a word scoring a little more, as
> little as possible). So a level of 0 will always play words with the
> lowest score, a level of 100 will always play the best score, and a
> level of 50 will (most of the time) score a bit more than half of the
> best score.
> It is also possible to play against several computer players, set with
> different levels.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Olivier