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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Expensive International Macs
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.065209.17114@uwasa.fi>
Date: 5 Dec 90 06:52:09 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.002230.13579@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Dec5.002230.13579@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>----- 
>In article <1990Dec5.094856.3679@csc.anu.oz.au>, pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au writes...
>Not necessarily.  For instance, Apple is an American company and much of its
>production is thus oriented towards English.  There is probably some non-zero
>amount of money involved in translating sofware, manuals, etc. into French,
>Swiss French, German, Swiss German, Italian, Spanish, Icelandic, Hebrew,
>Japanese, Arabic, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Dutch, Faerose
>(Faeroese???), etc.  (BTW there is System Software localized to each of the
>above, and possibly more).

No, no,   no.  APDA sells these  System  disks for  $35  if I remember
correct. So it can't help a thing.  BTW, I don't want localized system
software. All I  need  is that I can use  the same character sets that
are used here in Finland. This  is partly  because they are translated
so glumsy.

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