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From: g2k@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Frederic Giacometti)
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Subject: Re: French in User Manual
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Date: 27 Feb 90 22:11:55 GMT
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In article <1899@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> clement@opus.UUCP (Clement Pellerin) writes:
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>It says why somewhere in the manual.  It's required by law in Canada.
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>I guess no other country has such a law.

France and Germany also have such law. The North American distribution is common
to the continent. Europe and Japan just receive a different edition of the
installation manual.

As somebody remarked, not only there are nice accents, but I was surprised
by the quality of the traduction in french, well above the average technical
manual!!
I always thought that NeXT had a touch of class.