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From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running??
Message-ID: <2827@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 22:15:04 GMT
References: <17708@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <9190@hoptoad.uucp> <17695@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9247@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Organization: Apple Developer Services Switzerland
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>>The last check won't do much for you if the last item in the Apple
>>menu is "A-propos de MultiFinder," "Uber den MultiFinder," or
>>something in Kanji, Devanagari, Urdu, Hebrew, Arabic, Tamil,
>>Icelandic, Spanish, ...
>
>Sure it will.  I hope you aren't running around embedding string
>constants in your code!  At the time when you update all the STR# and
>STR resources for the new language, you would also change the string
>for "About MultiFinder..."

No, no, no! Don't ever assume that people use the local language for
all their applications *and* the Finder environment. This is almost
never the case. Most of the time, companies take months if not years
to publish a localised version of their software. This has the
unfortunate effect that international customers have to take what is
available, even if it isn't localised.

Also, don't forget that several countries are multilingual. Switzerland,
with four languages (plus english) is a good example. Many people here
don't mind to use a german System with a french word processing program,
and they get *very* confused if their application doesn't behave the
same way if they use a french System instead.
 
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