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From: Hartmut Holz <hartmut.holz@arcormail.de>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>>Localization for technical messages sucks.  badly.
>>Just take a look at a european computer magazine, you will find lots of
>>english words in the text because there is no german/frensh/whatever
>>one.  Trying to use different grammar doesn't help the understanding.
>>
> 
> Or take a look at a BSD or Linux Web page in one of the oriental
> languages...  even it contains English quite often.
> 


Best example is IBM. It's only possible to install the DB2 client
in your native Language (may be German) on Windows. The manual's are
in English. So, for example a trigger is a Ausl?ser - very strange.
May be they should translate the SQL Language to. Would be a little
bit easier and I can start with computing from scratch again.

Another nice thing is Excel. You use German for the table and English
for VB programing. For example: table: zeichen() == VB char().

On the other hand, the only population who dubbed/translate every
movie/thing into German, are the German's. Most others (for example Scandinavia,
Netherland) use the original Language (mostly English) with subtitles.



Hartmut


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