While I will be among the first to concede that OS X needs more work to
become what it set out to be, isn't it possible that some of these
problems are the fault of the applications or printer drivers? Menus
are a case in point. If Japanese is the primary language, the menus of
an application whose menus are in Japanese might look fine, but some
items will turn into garbage if English is the primary language. But
it's my understanding that this is the application's fault because the
menu items should be in Unicode. In the case of your printer driver,
perhaps Epson has screwed up. The driver for my Canon printer runs just
fine no matter what the system's primary language is.
The recent messages about problems with OS X have set me thinking about
Apple's "multilingual" OS. Unfortunately, at the moment this is still
more hype than reality.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, OS X 10.2.2 is unable to print to my
Epson PS printer, which only has a Japanese PPD. Previous versions of
OS
X, and even an English version of OS 9, were able to use this printer
but
10.2.2 crashes every time if English is the primary language for the
OS.
If Japanese is the primary language, then applications can print to the
printer. So it appears OS X is not so multilingual after all.
Other language shortcomings include OS X applications that do not run
unless Japanese is the primary language (EG Word Pure), or have reduced
functionality when English is the primary language (Jamming 3.0.3 and
(apparently) the Japanese version of MS Office v.X).
While I still prefer OS X to my Windows 2000 PC, at least English
Windows
2000 is able to run Japanese applications without throwing a fit.
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