I’ve just purchased Elements. To my surprise, the menus are using US English. As trivial as it sounds, one reason I chose Elements over the alternatives was to get away from Americanisms.
Could someone tell me if there’s a setting to change the menu items? Even Apple’s menus change based on user selected internationalisation settings.
Elements is not localised, we tend to use American spellings in the UI as that’s the biggest market for us. It’s mainly just Color, instead of Colour isn’t it? Is there anything else you have you noticed?
Other than color, under the view menu (and elsewhere) there is catalog.
There’s also center and minimize under the window menu, but I realise that’s likely outside your control as it’s an OS provided menu.
I know for most, it’s a really trivial thing, and you do it for financial reasons. But for me it ties into to the whole thing of “let’s try to fit in as we really want people to like us”.
Affinity (Serif) stood up, declared they were British, had the best product, and were damn proud of it. Doesn’t seem to have held them back.
hahah. I am in New Zealand, so we use colour. But I find in my code, I keep switching between both, I guess because what we get used too with CSS. But attributes and vars end up a mix accidentally at times.
Hey @Dan. As a curiosity, where does your exposure to US English come from? I noticed you say “period” in the latest video. I’d always imagined the UK to be better protected from cultural colonisation than the rest of the world.
I prized RapidWeaver for its English (not American) spelling, I could reply on it to show me those corrections to make when I upload a blog. American English is not okay in Canada. America and Canada share a lot in language, but not when it comes to our English grammar. We remain true to our British spellings. And don’t get me going on our trade war.