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By: marc

marc — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:15:41 +0000

It would be really great if you allow people to choose their language for the desktop clients. Is this planned for future versions? Please!

By: Nauka Jazdy

Nauka Jazdy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:35:34 +0000

Super! So, when I have set the settings according to my native language. What do I have to do in order to re-index all my notes?

By: al

al — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:28:18 +0000

This is great to know, I wish you guys would ad Arabic languge too.

By: Igor Afanasyev

Igor Afanasyev — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:39:28 +0000

@-Pablo-:

You may want to look at this forum topic for a way to change your language:

http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=12263&p=48810#p48810

By: -Pablo-

-Pablo- — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:54:11 +0000

@Andrew: Thanks for the reply, but in Windows XP I can’t change the language of the OS. And in anything but the Vista and 7 Ultimate (and Professional, I think) it’s not something supported by Microsoft.

In most Linux flavors I could and I don’t know how it is on the Mac, but as for me, I can’t choose another language…
besides, it’ such a basic thing!! Every multilingual program should allow the user to change the language!!

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:06:27 +0000

@Frank This particular feature relates to recognition of handwritten and printed text within images. Each language has different handwriting styles and over the past months we have been training our system to recognize the nuances of each. We also tie this information to dictionaries, in order to increase the accuracy of the results. By selecting a language you are improving the recognition results for that language. Selecting German does not mean that French results will disappear, it simply means that you will have significantly higher accuracy when searching for German words.

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:14:34 +0000

@Pablo It seems like the easiest solution is to change your OS language settings, especially if it is already giving you grief.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:17:23 +0000

I don’t understand the benefit of this option. Aren’t you recognizing text in notes regardless the language? And why should I limit to two languages only?

By: -Pablo-

-Pablo- — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:53:49 +0000

I think it’s a PITA that we cannot manually set the language for the desktop versions of Evernote. It’s OK that you pick the OSs language for setting a default in Evernote, but you really should allow us to chage it.
If you want to reduce the number of settings to a minimum, at least a parameter like evernote.exe -en (to force English GUI) should exist.

I bought a laptop abroad and the OS is in a language I really have trouble understanding, plus I want my software to be in English… is it so hard to allow us that freedom???

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:33:13 +0000

@Stephan We will be adding the re-indexing option shortly. Right now, all of you new notes will be indexed based on your preference.