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Posted June 10, 2015
Hello,

there does not seem to be a forum specific to "The Wolf Among Us". At least, the game page is directing me here.

When i play the first episode of TWAU the voice acting is in English, which is fine, BUT the subtitles and dialog options are german. I have a german Windows installation with a german locale set up, so this sounds like a reasonable thing. Unfortunately, the constant change in language really annoys me....is there a way to switch the in game text to English? There are, of cause, English texts available to English buyers..how to enable them on a German system?
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Posted June 10, 2015
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thomas001: Hello,

there does not seem to be a forum specific to "The Wolf Among Us". At least, the game page is directing me here.

When i play the first episode of TWAU the voice acting is in English, which is fine, BUT the subtitles and dialog options are german. I have a german Windows installation with a german locale set up, so this sounds like a reasonable thing. Unfortunately, the constant change in language really annoys me....is there a way to switch the in game text to English? There are, of cause, English texts available to English buyers..how to enable them on a German system?
I haven't played the game yet so you better doublecheck the game's options to be sure there really is no language option to set. If there really isn't one and the game goes by the locale you have set in your system (sadly some braindead programmers do this) then you can use SBAppLocale to fool the game into thinking your locale is set to US (or whatever).
Post edited June 10, 2015 by Geralt_of_Rivia
Posted June 10, 2015
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Geralt_of_Rivia: I haven't played the game yet so you better doublecheck the game's options to be sure there really is no language option to set. If there really isn't one and the game goes by the locale you have set in your system (sadly some braindead programmers do this)
And these programmers deserve to be trampled to death by ducks. It really is a horrible development practice.
Posted June 10, 2015
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Geralt_of_Rivia: I haven't played the game yet so you better doublecheck the game's options to be sure there really is no language option to set. If there really isn't one and the game goes by the locale you have set in your system (sadly some braindead programmers do this)
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Wishbone: And these programmers deserve to be trampled to death by ducks. It really is a horrible development practice.
I can kinda-sorta understand using the system's display language, but what do you propose for those who instead use the keyboard language?
Post edited June 10, 2015 by Maighstir
Posted June 10, 2015
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Wishbone: And these programmers deserve to be trampled to death by ducks. It really is a horrible development practice.
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Maighstir: I can kinda-sorta understand using the system's display language, but what do you propose for those who instead use the keyboard language?
I do believe that's what most of them do. At least, the games I've seen which used that abhorrent practice did use the keyboard input language rather than the OS language.

Microsoft are not innocent of this, by the way, although they do use the OS language rather than the keyboard language, I think. They are some of the worst. They've actually localized the .NET framework, meaning that if you're forced to do development on a Danish Windows installation, you'll get Danish .NET exceptions. Good luck googling those, let me tell you.

Oh yes, and if you use a Danish copy of Excel, all the functions and macros will be in Danish as well.
Posted June 10, 2015
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Maighstir: I can kinda-sorta understand using the system's display language, but what do you propose for those who instead use the keyboard language?
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Wishbone: I do believe that's what most of them do. At least, the games I've seen which used that abhorrent practice did use the keyboard input language rather than the OS language.

Microsoft are not innocent of this, by the way, although they do use the OS language rather than the keyboard language, I think. They are some of the worst. They've actually localized the .NET framework, meaning that if you're forced to do development on a Danish Windows installation, you'll get Danish .NET exceptions. Good luck googling those, let me tell you.

Oh yes, and if you use a Danish copy of Excel, all the functions and macros will be in Danish as well.
Yeah, Excel is a weird beast with its idea of functions and code in local language, but unless I remember wrongly, at least now (with Office Open XML) you can documents can be used across language versions, no?

Apple had a similar idea in the 90's with the first versions of Applescript - the language existed in English, French, Japanese, and a few other languages... and of course the English Applescript interpreter and compiler wouldn't understand a script written in, for example, French Applescript or vice versa. Thankfully, the non-English versions of the language were abandoned after a few years.

As for non-English error messages: http://unlocalize.com/
Post edited June 10, 2015 by Maighstir
Posted June 10, 2015
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Maighstir: Yeah, Excel is a weird beast with its idea of functions and code in local language, but unless I remember wrongly, at least now (with Office Open XML) you can documents can be used across language versions, no?

Apple had a similar idea in the 90's with the first versions of Applescript - the language existed in English, French, Japanese, and a few other languages... and of course the English Applescript interpreter and compiler wouldn't understand a script written in, for example, French Applescript or vice versa. Thankfully, the non-English versions of the language were abandoned after a few years.
Yes, I do believe the different language version of Excel were actually incompatible in the past, but I'm pretty sure that is (thankfully) not the case anymore.
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Maighstir: As for non-English error messages: http://unlocalize.com/
Wow, that seems awesome. Will definitely use this the next time I encounter that problem. Thanks :-)
Posted June 10, 2015
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Maighstir: As for non-English error messages: http://unlocalize.com/
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Wishbone: Wow, that seems awesome. Will definitely use this the next time I encounter that problem. Thanks :-)
A note though, I don't know how good it is. I hear about it every once in a rare while, but I haven't had need of it myself (I've primarily been using English systems).
Posted June 10, 2015
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thomas001: Hello,

there does not seem to be a forum specific to "The Wolf Among Us". At least, the game page is directing me here.

When i play the first episode of TWAU the voice acting is in English, which is fine, BUT the subtitles and dialog options are german. I have a german Windows installation with a german locale set up, so this sounds like a reasonable thing. Unfortunately, the constant change in language really annoys me....is there a way to switch the in game text to English? There are, of cause, English texts available to English buyers..how to enable them on a German system?
Well, since I just so happen to have bought TWAU, this is a major bummer to me. And yes, there are no ingame options to change the language... Seriously, why would anyone do this to their customers?

At any rate, after some digging around I found a nice workaround. (Sorry if this is painfully obvious to everyone, but I surely didn't know you could do this.)
In the control panel, change the settings for "unicode incompatible programs" to English. The game will now think you have moved to the UK. Thank you, game!
(Systemsteuerung -> Zeit, Sprache, Region -> Region und Sprache -> Tab "Verwaltung"-> Gebietsschema ändern).
I'm using Win 7, btw.

There is also the option to mess around a bit with the files in the installation folder (putting some files in subfolders or renaming them), I found one that works, but also gets rid of subtitles altogether. So, moving abroad just seems a bit less of a hassle ;)
Posted June 10, 2015
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WildHobgoblin: At any rate, after some digging around I found a nice workaround. (Sorry if this is painfully obvious to everyone, but I surely didn't know you could do this.)
In the control panel, change the settings for "unicode incompatible programs" to English. The game will now think you have moved to the UK. Thank you, game!
(Systemsteuerung -> Zeit, Sprache, Region -> Region und Sprache -> Tab "Verwaltung"-> Gebietsschema ändern).
I'm using Win 7, btw.
Just tried that, and I can confirm it works.
Posted June 11, 2015
Thanks for all the helpful replies! :-)
Unfortunately, I can only mark one post as solution, sorry for the other replies with working fixes.

Does anybody know if it is somehow possible to mark several solutions?
Post edited June 11, 2015 by thomas001
Posted June 11, 2015
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thomas001: Thanks for all the helpful replies! :-)
Unfortunately, I can only mark one post as solution, sorry for the other replies with working fixes.

Does anybody know if it is somehow possible to mark several solutions?
It isn't, other than by glitches in the forum. I did see a thread with 2 solutions the other day, but it's not supposed to be possible.
Posted February 15, 2017
I know this a very old post, but as TWAU was just sold for 5,80€ maybe some stumble upon the issue too.

And GOG supplied a fine language switch tool within the game folder.
called language_setup.exe

It switches title, menu and in-game subtitles and dialog choices to your selected language. Even works in between scenes, so exit - change language - restart - enjoy new language.

Hope this helps some folks that aren't as fluid in english as the writers of the story.

Cheers
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