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- 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
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:30:20 GMT
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- 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.
-
-
-
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- Erkka Pietari Sutinen # Eke what availeth Maner and Gentlinesse
- eps@rieska.oulu.fi / sutinen@csc.fi # Without yow, benygne creature?
- University of Oulu. Finland # Shal Cruelte be your governesse?
- Dep. of Information Prosessing Science# -Chaucher
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