Klarinet Archive - Posting 001520.txt from 2000/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] useful character [OT]
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:14:33 -0500

From: "Andrea Bergamin" <a.bergamin@-----.it>
>

All of that is a marketing problem, not something inherent in a PC or Mac or
whatever. I do know that PCs running Windoze marketed in Japan have a
special version of the keyboard and OS, and I do know that here in the US I
can order special language keyboards from the major suppliers for not much
more than a "US" keyboard, and if someone doesn't mind popping the keycaps
off you can re-arrange the keyboard and run a little driver program that
will re-arrange the output of any keyboard.

There's no reason not to make a program multilingual besides
programmer/writer cost, QA, documantation, and support (all of that is not
insignificant); even the menus in Windoze can be set to just about any
language. It _is_ well documented how to do it. One of the things
DOS/Windoze does right is international support - the IBM heritage shows in
that part of it. I think the Macs and PCs are pretty close on both those
things.

mark C.

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