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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for dictionaries (esp. german MS Word dictionary)
Message-ID: <90.123.20:42:55@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 3 May 90 18:42:54 GMT
References: <1990Apr27.100228.18027@ulrik.uio.no> <90.121.23:14:19@smurf.sub.org> <21812@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac, article <21812@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>,
  isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
< In article <90.121.23:14:19@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
< >Bash Microsoft Time:
< >Word's German dictionary refuses to work with the US version of the program.
< >Word's US dictionary refuses to work under the English version.
< >(Repeat varying languages until bored.)
< 
< Are you using Word 4.0A?  Supposedly 4.0 does not work with the foreign
< dictionaries and version 4.0A is required for those.
< 
Hey, they've learned! Must have been a novel experience for them. ;-)

Unfortunately, at least in Germany you still can't buy the US dictionary.
You also can't buy the US version. There are many people here who get
thoroughly sick when seeing the "US->German Translated Computerese Normal
Form" (which is German with English punctuation and haphazardly translated
computer-specific words) and with US idiosyncracies replaced with German
ideosyncracies instead of sensibly using the Script Manager. :-(

Word 4.0 US also will behave very strangely when running under a German system
(it examines the "language" integer from one of the INTL resources. A very
annoying form of copy protection). I don't know whether this still holds for
versions > 4.0, though.
< 
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Matthias Urlichs