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From: ranson@crcge1.UUCP (D. Ranson CNET)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard previews in Mac Today
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 04:55:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 04:55:03 1987
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Summary: International Hypercard (Big problems)

In article <17702@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
> PARIS--European Macintosh users will have to wait until next year for the
> release of the international version of HyperCard, Apple's personalized
> programming language for the Mac.
  [ Stuff deleted]
> Besides translating the menu, dialog and alert text strings into the
> various languages, Apple must localize HyperTalk so users can see it in
> their own language.  This procedure entails storing the HyperTalk commands
> or procedures on disk in English and translating them into local languages
> for display.
  [ stuff deleted]
> Robert Jellinghaus             

Localizing Hypercard for international markets is a tricky business. I have
played with a pre-release of the French version. At least one of my stacks
was not working. Of course, the script language is not translated, but the
dialogs and menus are. In the stack that was not working, I had a script with
       DoMenu "Copy Button"
Since the menu item was "Copier le bouton", Hypertalk rejected this command.

    Daniel Ranson
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