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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5204 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 11:01:22 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:9180 comp.os.linux:19914 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!ousrvr.oulu.fi!woo!eps From: eps@rieska.oulu.fi (Erkka Sutinen) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) In-Reply-To: russed@rebecca.its.rpi.edu's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:17:26 GMT Message-ID: <EPS.92Dec21153020@rieska.oulu.fi> Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi Reply-To: eps@rieska.oulu.fi Organization: Unixverstas Olutensin, Department of Tollologhy References: <id.M2XV.VTA@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu> <agp22+#@rpi.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:30:20 GMT Lines: 27 russed@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Russell) writes. > As a (kind of) side note, I have heard that the NeXT has *excellent* >foreign language support. If anyone is interested, NeXT's system is basically this: Every program is an directory. (directory for unix side, and an application for GUI) This directory has binary program and resources. Resources are graphics and UI's in NIB (NeXT Interface Builder) files as well as files containing texts that program prints. Resoures are put into subdirectories, one for each language. To localize an program for an new language you just copy files to an new directory, take text editor and write new texts, take IB and edit user interfaces to have suitable texts, and that's it. Problem is that programs have to be started through windowing system. Therefore this schema doesn't suit for Linux, even though it could be possible to make an special window manager for X+Linux to support full localization, but this would make Linux incompatible. -- ======================================#======================================= Erkka Pietari Sutinen o: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1274@zogwarg.etl.army.mil> <1gnqtaINNenu@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:52:27 GMT Lines: 96 >>>>> In article <1gnqtaINNenu@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp