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From: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
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Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running??
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Date: 12 Dec 89 04:36:04 GMT
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In article <1989Dec11.172400.25746@agate.berkeley.edu> silverio@brahms.berkeley.edu.UUCP (C J Silverio) writes:
>Wouldn't this be nice? Then one could ship a really international
>version of the program that automatically (if possible) come up in
>whatever language was appropriate. Too much disk space? Pish and
>poddle! I'll betcha people like it.

I'm afraid most people wouldn't even care.  Macs are expensive
overseas, and while I don't have the exact numbers, I think American
macs outnumber foreign macs by quite a bit (correct me if I'm wrong.)

For big dog programs, this might be a viable option (things like Word,
PageMaker, etc.) but you would have to do a lot more than just change
the menu names for these programs.  Imagine PageMaker in Japanese.
Perhaps all this will be easier when the line layout manager gets here.

So for these big programs, 
  a) there are possibly major differences in code between different 
       versions
  b) they are going to have to do different packaging for the things
       anyway.

Besides.  Word is buggy enough without sticking more code onto it.

-Sho
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sho@physics.purdue.edu  <<-- betcha didn't think anyone was going to
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                             i waste.