__/ [ JEDIDIAH ] on Monday 17 July 2006 14:36 \__
> On 2006-07-15, Bob Hauck <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:19:53 +0200, Sandman <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, but why would you want to do that? Different locales for different
>>> users I get, but for different applications in the same login? Why?
>>
>> Maybe the user is a linguist.
>
> ...or just speaks more than one language. Anyone that speaks more
> than one language on a regular basis could quite easily have reason to
> have different apps running in different languages at once. Using IM to
> talk to mother in the native language while doing work in english is not a
> paricularly far stretch really.
>
> One might even want to have multiple languages in the same
> instance of gaim (or firefox) depending on whom you happen to be chatting
> with at that particular moment.
Having forks of an existing O/S is the far worse solution,
e.g. Windows 'enabled', for various foreign languages.
Foreigners may very well know the inconvenient scenario
which involves trying to get hold of an O/S with the full or
partial support for one given language. Moreover, not all
applications come in a variety of languages, accommodate for
multi-linguist documentation projects (screenshots or menu
names, for example), and correspond to one's preferred
language for a given application (jargon, for example,
springs to mind).
I have found the image I was earlier referring to. It's in
the main kde.org site (just 1 or 2 levels down):
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/3.5/34-languages.png
Best wishes,
Roy
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