P: doesn't read TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt when the Mac computer is in an unsupported language

[johnrellis]

When a Mac computer is set to a primary language and region not supported by LR (e.g. Hungarian/Hungary), and LR's Preferences > General > Language is set to Automatic (Default), LR fails to read the keyboard shortcuts in the file TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt even though the LR user interface is displayed in English and the English shortcuts are active.

This causes confusion for users of my Any Shortcut plugin, a disproportionate number of whom are running LR in unsupported languages with non-English keyboards (and thus want to adjust the English shortcuts that don't work well on their keyboards).

Tested on LR 13.2 / Mac OS 14.2.1. I haven't tested Windows, though it's very possible the same bug occurs there. 

To reproduce:

1. In Mac Settings, General > Language & Region, set the Primary Language to be English (US) and the region to be United States, and restart the computer if the language and region get changed.

2. Create this file:

/Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic/Adobe Lightroom Classic.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt

containing this single line:

"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/File/Edit/DeselectActive/Key=Cmd+Shift+y"

This will change the keyboard shortcut for Deselect Active Photo from / to Cmd Shift Y.

3. In LR, set Preferences > General > Language to Automatic and restart LR. 

4. Select multiple photos in Library Grid view and verify that Cmd Shift Y deselects the current most-selected photo.

5. In Mac Settings, General > Language & Region, set the Primary Language to be Hungarian and the region to be Hungary, and restart the computer:

6. Start LR and observe that the LR user interface is in English (because Hungarian isn't a supported language.)

7. Do Help > System Info and observe that it shows:

Language setting: hu-HU 

8. In a Lua script or debugger. observe that LrLocalization.currentLanguage () returns "en".

9. In Library Grid view, select multiple photos and observe that / deselects the most-selected photo, not Cmd Shift Y. LR hasn't read the TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt created in step 2, which is incorrect.

10. Set Preferences > General > Language to English and restart LR.

11. In Library Grid view, select multiple photos and observe that Cmd Shift Y deselects the most-selected photo, indicating that LR has now read TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Setting status to investigating

[anssik_]

Thank you John, the sweet relevation wondering why I can't work with one-key keyboard shortcuts and can't seem to get Keyboard Tamer and Any Shortcut to work changing them with my Finnish keyboard and Finnish localized macOS.

This was it: change Default (English) to English.

Oh my how stupid I feel to waste countles hours coming to this problem and always just settle not having a keyboard shortcut for Deselect Active Photo, for example (as Finnish keyboard doesn't have / key at all as it's behind Shift + 7).

Thank you.

Hope this gets fixed so no other Finnish Lightroom user has to waste hours on this.

edit: Here I am in 2021 trying to explain the problem: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-for-keyboard-shortcut-customization/i...