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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Modifying International Resources
Summary: You're doing it right - Word is wrong!!
Keywords: International Resources
Message-ID: <11443@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 16:45:29 GMT
References: <1871@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1871@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, goz@cca.ucsf.edu (Goz Lyv) writes:
> I've been trying to change some of the items in International Resources
> for instance, the date to yy-mm-dd format.  I'm using ResEdit 1.3d1, and
> I'm careful to work with a copy of the System file.  The problem is that
> none of my applications recognizes that a change has been made.  For instance,
> Word uses the m/d/y format when I ask it to insert the date.  When I go back
> and examine the System file with ResEdit, my changes appear as I made them.
> Any ideas to help me get this to work would be much appreciated. Thanks!
> -Goz (goz@ucsfvm.ucsf.edu or goz@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu)

	You are doing the right thing, however you have discovered one of my
favorite complaints about Mac Programmers (I can bitch, I'm one too..) and
that is that most of them don't realize that there is a word OUTSIDE the U.S.
Even though Apple has given them all the tools to make their software
compatible for all environments, they don't take advantage of them!  So you
can edit those resources to your hearts content - it won't help! (at least not
in Word and a lot of other appls)

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