I also wondered... the European Commission publishes the Official Journal of the European Communities in three languages, French, German and English. Why can't we?
In a message dated 6/30/99 5:05:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << We had several discussions about this issue. I presented to Engineering and Marketing the legal requirements from the directives and let them make the choice as to what languages we should actually use. In the end we decided to print in five languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian as a matter of course. Marketing came back with one special request to add either Swedish or Finnish, I can't remember which. We don't do any other languages. We have had no complaints as to what languages we either have or don't have. Except from our documentation people who have to make out the purchase requisitions for the translations which are very costly. Scott [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EU Official Languages When a Directive requires information to be provided to the user, and that equipment is intended to marketed in every EU and EFTA country, what minimal set of languages must be used? I can think of the following languages that are used in these countries. Are there more languages that must be included? Can some of these be deleted? English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian (EFTA) >> --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
