Re: [Eliot-general] Not installing in French

[Olivier Teuliere]

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