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From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud)
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Subject: Re: Need French Sys 7
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Date: 29 Jun 91 09:14:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.172709.5783@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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In article <1991Jun27.172709.5783@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> lhux@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>We are currently doing some tests with France; however, they are not running
>System 7 yet.   I would like to be able to provide them with the System 7
>software;  however, they would like everything to be in French.   First: do I
>just need to update some resources, or do I need a whole new set of files?  and

Please, don't use such collectives as "they". Some of us are using 
the US version of System 7 :-)
(Considering the number of people using System 7 in the US one could 
also say that in the US "they" don't use System 7 either).

So, to have everything in French, yes, you just need to update
some resources... but there are many of them. All, the menus, 
the dialogs, the help baloon, the file names, have to be
translated. Besides, there are two problems:
1) You won't use the correct terminology. Each new feature 
introduced with System 7 introduces a new term that had to be 
translated, such as (Publish,Suscribe) -> (Publier,S'abonner).
2)I think (of course, I'm not a lawyer (double though here :-))
 that doing this translation you will infringe the copyrights 
 on System 7.

Anyway, practicallt speaking there are two solutions for you:
1) Give those poor Frenchies the 7.0b4-F1 which is translated 
in French and is available on the Golden CD-ROM. Of course, this
is not the final version, but it works quite well.
2) Wait a few months (weeks), the French version should be 
available in France RSN (Real Soon Now).

Arno.

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