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Run Maya with a Japanese user interface
Running Maya in Japanese
Prepare Maya files containing Japanese text
Run Maya in English within
a Japanese environment
Many existing Japanese
users of Maya may already be comfortable working within the English
language user interface of Maya.
If you’re working on
a Windows operating system with a Japanese language environment
and want to use Maya in English, you can do so by setting the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE environment variable.
To run Maya in English within a Japanese
environment (Windows)
- Right-click on the My
Computer icon on the Windows Desktop, and select Properties from
the drop-down list that appears.
- In the System Properties window,
click the Advanced tab.
- Click the Environment Variables button.
The User and System environment
variables window appears.
- In the User variables for <userlogin>
section, click New.
- In the Variable Name text
field type: MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE
- In the Variable Value text
field type: en_US
- Launch Maya.
NoteIf you later want
to run Maya in Japanese you can set User Environment Variable Value
to ja_JP or remove
the variable from the list of User Environment Variables.
To run Maya in English within a Japanese
environment (Mac OS X)
- Temporarily set the language to English
within International preferences section of the Systems Preferences.