Re: A rose by any other name...

[Eric Hildum]

KanjiTalk uses a translation of the name - I forget what it is right now --- フィンだー perhaps. All of the file and folder names are in Japanese, either the appropriate Japanese name or a katakana translation of the name. One interesting case is the Chooser, rather than using the katakana representation of chooser, they changed the program name to "Selector," and used that katakana. At any rate, to answer your question, there are no English language names anywhere in the file system on the Japanese version of MacOS. All application and folder names have been localized. The same is true for the Chinese versions of MacOS. I think that all of the system files and folders have a standard, language independent means of reference, though I do not know how this works from Applescript. Eric Hildum > From: Thomas Schierle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 00:12:37 +0100 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: A rose by any other name... > > On 00-12-03 14:14 +0100, Ulrich von Brunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 00-12-03 11:01 +0100, George Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> A related question for those of you with a non-English version of Mac OS: is >>> the name "Finder" used universally, or do other languages use a different >>> name for "Finder"? >> >> I have both the German version of MacOS 9 and Microsoft Entourage. Both >> applications have the same names as the English equivalents. I assume other >> language versions are the same, so there should be no problem with the >> 'tell' command. > > I believe French and Northern European Languages are the most troublesome, > -- German localized Mac OS and apps have been pretty much US Mac OS > compliant for years (except for some preference files and database naming > schemes ;-) > > > -- > Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany > > PGP key [DSS/DH] 0xA23CDA1D available at various public key servers > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To search the archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>