[Framers] Maker.ini - Language Setting Question

[Lynne A. Price]

Alison,

    Are you editing your personal maker.ini in C:\Users\<your user 
name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\16 or FrameMaker's default which 
is probably in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020?

   If the former, you might want to close FrameMaker, make a backup copy 
of C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\16, delete 
the original directory, and restart FrameMaker. Do you still get the 
error message about initializing dictionaries?

    Most users do not want to reset the LanguageDir option in maker.ini. 
By default it is set to "dict" which points to C:\Program 
Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\dict. This directory contains the 
spelling dictionaries available to FrameMaker. Which of these spelling 
dictionaries you use depends on the languages set in your paragraph formats.

    Winfried's suggestion to reinstall FrameMaker assumes you were 
asking about the user interface language used in menus, dialog boxes, 
and various templates. Canadian English is not an option for the UI 
language, where the possibilities are North American English, 
International English, French, German, and Japanese. If you choose North 
American English, the default templates do use US English.

    Winfried also referred you to the INI Reference manual. You may 
recognize the setting you need there.

    Do you remember what the setting you want affected? Are you sure it 
was in maker.ini?

     --Lynne


On 9/9/2021 10:54 AM, A Craig wrote:
> Also unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact wording to reset the maker.ini language to Canadian English from "USEnglish" (see below). I've tried a couple of things but I'm getting a message that says:
>
> "FrameMaker cannot initialize its dictionaries. Either the
> LanguageDir entry specified in the initialization file is missing
> or incorrect, or the files in the LanguageDir are missing or
> currupted,"
>
>
> Back when I installed FrameMaker this past spring, I know I edited maker.ini to use Canadian English and it worked just fine.

-- 
Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
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