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- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Internationalisation
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.100931.10518@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 22:09:31 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.034413.19776@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Sep1.034413.19776@maths.tcd.ie>, merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes) writes:
- > If we are to have support for multiple languages in a certain
- > forthcoming product, what should we use to determine the country?
- >
- > 1) User is asked when they first run the game. This is saved, but
- > can be changed later by selecting an option somewhere.
- > 2) Defaults to configured country. This can again be changed, by
- > selecting the aformentioned option.
- >
- > Then, what languages should we support? Due to limited resources
- > we will only be able to support a subset of the global languages.
- > What are Acorn's major foreign markets?
- > (We'll probably do a few more countries than come with the main
- > release, but you'd need to ask specifically for them.)
- >
-
-
- O.k., here's the clincher:-
-
- Write it all in English!
-
- Most people in the U.K. can understand English (although I have my doubts about
- this), and it's almost useless trying to speak French in France as so many
- French speak English anyway.......
-
- The alternative: Chinese; as more people in the world speak it, next to
- English.
- From Martin Glanvill (mcg@waikato.ac.nz)
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