Will this work for two-byte versions?  I've always been interested in  seeing Adobe products in Japanese.

At least in Win 7 Ultimate you can run AE CS5 in Japanese by changing the OS region/language settings to Japanese.

It would be great if someone knows an easier way like the ae_force_english trick though

On Mac OS, you just have to show the app info (cmd-i) and switch the language.

On a general note, Adobe restricted the language available in all it's app since CS3 (and since CS4 for AE), you only have 2 options: run AE in the language you bought it (your localised version) and in internationnal english.

As a side note, and Todd will correct me if I'm wrong, the ability to switch to english is here thanks to the expressions not being always compatible from a language to another (like the slider controls for exemple). If it was not the case, I guess we'll all be stuck with our localised versions (and that would be extremely bad by the way).

hi lloydalvarez,

what you are describing is a standard procedure for OS X 10.6, but it doesn't work for After Effects CS5. I even tried to remove completely Italian from Language & Text panel (and logged out...) but AE CS5 seems to run always in the language chosen during the installation.

I was able to force the app launching in English only in this way:

1) right click on "Adobe After Effects CS5.app"

2) click on "Show package contents"

3) navigate to "Contents/Resources/AMTLanguages"

4) delete or move the file "it_IT.txt"

5) launch the application and work with English interface

For switching back to Italian I just move back the deleted file in its original place. Even if this workaround is working, I was wondering if there was a better way to manage the switch between my local language and English.

thanks for any advice.

I just tried it out and voilá: the solution for Snow Leopard is the one described by Mylenium.

Simply create an empty "ae_force_english.txt" in your user's "~/Documents" folder, ie "/Users/[username]/Documents"

"ps_force_english.txt" didn't work though I wonder, if there's a way to start Photoshop (and all the other applications) in English, too.

@jackgoldfinch

thank you very much for sharing it, I finally got it working with the txt file. Good to know that the solution for Win is usable on OS X as well.

ps

In Photoshop you can go to "preferences" > "interface" > "UI text options" > "UI language" and choose from the drop-down menu language items, but I'm afraid that it could work only for multivolume/multilanguage lincenses...

look i just figured out how to do it... i read everyone else's but they didn't work... all i did was:

1) simply go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5\Support Files\AMTLanguages

2) create a text and type en_US "or whatever language you're trying to change it to", then save and title it the same thing (en_US) "or whater language you're trying to change it to."

3) finally erase the orther languages then you'll be fine.

good luck.

Oh this was very helpful, its working so far... I dont know who would use after effects in anything other than english, since all the good tutorials are in english and its a mess to try to follow them in another language. Thanks.