P: Allow users to change the UI language without having to purchase multiple licenses

Using the Adobe Applicatio Manager. All though its set to english - the downloaded app is (in my case) Danish.

Agree with Juan.

Kim: If all you want is English, no problem: Just download the English version.

There's only a problem if you want to switch between languages, or want to upgrade from one language to another. (the fact you can't is, IMO, frankly ridiculous)

Lightroom for instance is multi-language by default.

In the times of Commodore Amiga there was a feature integrated in the operating system called "Locales". The programs were coded with texts in English but there were Locale files containing all those texts in other languages. They were plain text files similar to XML files. Normally a program was shipped with several of this files but you could add more locales simply by downloading and copying the locale files to the locale folder of the program or you could even create your own locale file by editing some existing locale file since they were plain text files.
If a locale file was present for your default language, the program would run already localized in that language. If not, it would run in English.

Even multiple users of the same machine could have the same program installation localized to their chosen languages.

Well, if you take a look to a Photoshop installation you will see the program exe file is coded with English texts and the localized texts are all of them in another file. All that is necessary to hack the program into another language is replace this localized file so it would be very easy to implement some sort of Locales feature.

Of course the perfect thing would be Microsoft implementing the Locales in Windows (and Apple in MacOS, of course) so all programs would use this feature. This would also reduce costs in retail software since software companies would not need to create localized versions of their installation discs but only one international version containing several languages and adding more by downloads from their websites.

I think the so called modern Operating Systems still have much to learn from "ancient" Operating Systems like AmigaOS.

Completely agree.. Just downloaded the whole suite and found out everything is native language..!

I just want it in english please!

is changing file name or its content legal? can you learn this?

Works like a charm! Thanks!!

JP,
Yes, I don't know if it is totally legal to temper with the files...
The drop-down works, if you PURCHASE a license for each language that you want to use! Then, the drop-down becomes useful.
In Lightroom, Bridge and other Adobe software, you can freely change the UI language.
The worst is that often, users need to have different languages in order to help users from different part of the world.

After searching for different solutions - and, yes, I do have an official Licence of the CS5 Master Collection - I found the only way that works on Mac OSX is by renaming the file "tw10428.dat".

On Mac OSX Snow Leopard it is placed here on a French installation :

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Locales/fr_FR/Support Files

just rename it, and the program starts in English !

I wish Adobe would make the Preference "Language UI" dropbox useful. Why have it here if it's of no use... ?

Thanks Miguel Marn for posting 🙂

Is that voiding license?

We have licenses for adobe CS design premium in our native language, Turkish. But it's hard to be use photoshop in Turkish because i used it in english for years. Can we edit the language file without voiding license?