Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: An AmigaVision Question Message-ID: <1990Nov27.020432.11108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 27 Nov 90 02:04:32 GMT References: <37065@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <16059@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 50 karl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Karl Herrman - CATS) writes: > boily@phy.ulaval.ca (Edouard Boily) writes: >> Hi, >> Just a short question about AmigaVision! Does someone know >>what exactly the file 'AV_Text.English' contains? Is it the texts >>used by AV fot the Helps, the menus, the requesters, etc...? If yes, >>do you know how to create one? I'd like to create one in french... >> The manual does not say much about it. It would be nice to >>have access to the format used for this file. >> Thank you, > The file does contain the text files for all the requestors, Error > messages, etc The original file was created with a text editor and > encrypted. We are already working on a French translation of ^^^^^^^^^ > AmigaVision amoung other languages. > The manual was written before this feature was added. This change was > made to make it easier to translate AmigaVision for other languages. > Karl Herrmann C.A.T.S. Software Specialist Is there someone at Commodore particularly in charge of making this kind of decisions to antagonize the user base? Last I heard, there are some 3000 different human languages. Don't you think you might be limiting your market just the teensiest bit by making distribution to these other language groups wait until you folks get around to finding someone who knows each language to do the translation for you? As opposed, say, to putting the file out in well documented, easy to modify form, and letting the vast knowledge of the user base be brought to bear to get the port done in 1/10 the time and cost to Commodore, thereby boosting your sales and hastening the return on your software development investment. Some of the thinking that comes out of CBM just staggers an intellect used to common sense. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.