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From: daugher@cssunf.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
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Subject: Re: French in User Manual
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Date: 23 Feb 90 00:50:59 GMT
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In article <12@isl.stanford.edu> awang@isl.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang) writes:
>I can't figure out why of all things there is a French translation of
>appendix C in the NeXT User's Reference manual.  Why French?  Why not
>also German or Japanese?  Why Appendix C?
>
>Just Curious.
>
>-Avery Wang
>awang@isl.stanford.edu

So they can sell it in Canada.  Thanks to French-speaking activists in Quebec
province, Canada is officially a bilingual country and just about everything
must be written in both languages (e.g., the instruction and information pages
in the front of a phone book).

Perhaps Appendix C comes under the Canadian legal requirement for "operating
instructions" and the rest of the manual doesn't?  Anyway, it's nice to see
how prettily the French accents and special characters turn out, n'est-ce pas?