__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 10 February 2007 08:04 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 09 February 2007 16:02 \__
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> As a side note, I suspect that KDE is the only environment (or Linux, to
>>>> generalise) which can handle multiple locales in a single session.
>>>
>>> Gnome too: gnome-keyboard-properties
>>>
>>> Ich kann in die deutschen oder französischen Buchstaben in einem Fenster
>>> schreiben entweder, ou même indiquez les différents caractères pour
>>> différentes fenêtres.
>>>
>>> ???? ????? 100 ???? ???????? ????????? ??-??????? ?????. El Gnomo es un
>>> sistema mucho flexible.
>>
>> That's what I suspected. Language support in Linux seems superior to that
>> of Windows XP, but it depends _a lot_ on what distribution one uses.
>> Either way, it's the following image I had in mind:
>> http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/3.5/34-languages.png
>
> Microsoft still spell "favourite" in american rather than standard
> english in IE, their flagship browser. They believe that this is enough
> to get their hands on your cash.
Yes, you mentioned this before (or maybe it was somebody else). Amazing,
isn't it? And they still use localisation as an excuse for predatory and
extortionate pricing, relying on an exclusive monopoly.
>> I took a moment to think about how open source brings minds together to
>> bring lingual advantages. There was a time when someone from China
>> reported a WordPress bug in the mailing lists. I was able to reproduce it
>> and created a bug report. Then, a guy from Finland wrote a patch, which
>> made it into the trunk. Without this internationaled teamwork, where one
s/internationaled/internationalised/
One among the many typos.
>> guy can tell apart Asian languages, the bugs would have reached millions
>> of Web sites. So there's the power of having the code visible to many
>> people around the world... people with different and complementary skills.
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~~ Best wishes
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