What I tried:

Installed the Japanese version of InDesign. The CJK version came up. All is well except that it takes much more time for me to navigate through the UI because everything is in Japanese.

Installed the English with Hebrew support version. ME options appeared. CJK options mostly remained functional except that (as far as I can tell) we can’t set up the character grid any more.

Installed the Canadian French version. Now everything is screwed. Not only have both the CJK and ME options disappeared, the UI is not even in French. The extensions are still there, but no matter how hard I tried the generic English UI, with no language support whatsoever, came up.

So what I’ll have to do is to uninstall the whole thing, then go through this install-Japanese-then-install-Hebrew cycle all over again. How many GB of bandwidth am I going to have to waste to get the setup right? Why can’t they make language switching easier, if not only to save *themselves* unnecessary bandwidth?

Localisation takes a few megabytes extra, why not offer a download for everyone (to the old-fashioned box-owners as well)? Why not ship it with the discs in the first place?

Also, why couldn’t one convert his once-bought PC-Version to a Mac License? Starting with the required (de)activation a few years back, this wouldn’t have hurt adobe.

[You can, and it doesn't: here's more info. --J.]

(We previously only bought english versions, because we sometimes employ freelancers who are sometimes more comfortable with english. With downloadable language packs, we could let everybody decide for themselves.)

[That's just what you can do now, but the feature is unique to Creative Cloud subscriptions. --J.]

Plus have to be carefull because apparently there is an “English” only version of CC subscription and if you buy this one you have to contact support if you want to switch to another language or license your trial in your native language…

Ok it’s the begining of CC adventure but it looks that the launch was not prepared enough to me…