During the bombing raid on Tue, 04 Sep 2001 13:38:45 +0200, Gr�goire Colbert
was heard mumbling in fear:
> Dominik Bittl wrote:
> > After deactivation of Aurora, the ugly Welcome-Bootup-Screen with all the
>different languages is still coming !!
>
> It is not ugly : it is called internationalization. <grin>
>
> What is criticizable is the "Welcome to Linux-Mandrake" in lilo screen,
> which is untranslated. Sorry for english people out there, but why
> should it be spelled in english??
Because unfortunately english is the lingua franca of the Net? You can
see it here on the list...people from many non-english-speaking nations all
"talking" in english...I, for one, can't understand a word in french without
help, and same can be said of almost any other language on earth (except my
native spanish, and a couple of dead or almost-dead languages not spoken
outside of Mexico).
Vox
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of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
Vox populi, vox deii....
