Saturday, October 16, 1999
Hello Keith,
Friday, Friday, October 15, 1999, you wrote:
Keith Russell> Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
Keith Russell> On Thursday, October 14, 1999, 8:03:20 PM, tracer wrote:
>> what about using office 2000 with the special addin disks?
>> Supposedly there is japanese so probably Chinese/Korean also exists.
>> I havent seen any of these in the Final condition but they were widely
>> floating around in the far east in the beta stage...
Keith Russell> Aha! I just pulled out a copy of Beta-2 (which I haven't actually
Keith Russell> installed and tested). CD 5 and CD 6 are labeled "The Microsoft Office
Keith Russell> Language Pack: featuring multilingual user interface and proofing
Keith Russell> tool support for seven languages: German, Arabic, Japanese, Korean,
Keith Russell> Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.")
Sofar I have only seen a final of German, Hebrew and Arabic on the
SAME cd... MS seems to be splitting them up in a way that they are
unlikely to have more then one language of interest at the same
time....
>> The only problem I found was that one needed the USA windows to run
>> them as running English ofice 2000 on other European languages could
>> cause corruption...
Keith Russell> Okay, not a problem for me, since I'm running English Windows. Might
Keith Russell> be for others, though.
Most of the mixed language versions like Thai are unstable and I
havent seen any critical updates for ages so presumably those should
be targets of hacking attachs(g)
>> and in my experience language mixing here in the
>> far East is a problem (and a large amount of our business in sorting
>> it out again...)
Keith Russell> Fascinating. So what is your business? Please reply in private if
Keith Russell> you'd like; I'm very interested.
We sell / build / service PC's in South Thailand and most of our
customers are the local foreigners who kind of dislike the idea to
have Thais inside their systems...
Plus that I myself am involved in the USA in a system security
company and am at present setting up a second service center in the
area where I live...
Essentially I plan the technical side but recently due to an
inevitable motorbike accident I was for 3 months out of action...
Anyway many owners insist in mixing German/English/Thai/japanese or
whatever even after we warn them and then we end up charging and
cleaning it up again. Till the next mistake....
Thai has a small utility from a local university which works fine,
stay away from Thai master, its better looking but also a master in
system corruption. So if you need Thai, very likely a font could be
found for theBAT..I havent tried it. (And anyway, I cannot read or
write it but I can install chinese/japanese or whatever windows....).
We have as problem here anyway that hardly anyone wants to pay for
software so while I wouldnt mind selling theBAT, with all the free
software around its , well, difficult!
One main reason I like software like theBAT is that if windows
corrupts, and that happens a lot, it doesnt impact my mail/news or
whatever. Ok, I have to dig up my serial etc to reregister it again
and select the accounts but the number of people I see loosing all
their mail/addressbooks in Outlook....
>> or what about the free MS 98 downloads (english) for foreign languages which also
>let you change
>> the menus to for instance japanese.. Only problem besides that I
>> wouldnt know how to use it was that on removing I found my internet to
>> have gone back to English but standard explorer stayed in japanese...
Keith Russell> I have downloaded all the Korean support. The result was that Internet
Keith Russell> Explorer and Outlook/Express now work great--but no effect on The Bat,
Keith Russell> which, as Thomas mentioned, does not appear to pay any attention to
Keith Russell> the DBCS fonts.
correct... But Thai has diferent fonts.
Keith Russell> Thanks--especially for the Office 2000 suggestion. I'll check it out.
Should work, MS says somewhere it is using unicode, no idea if correct
or if it changed...
Keith Russell> Keith Russell
Keith Russell> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best regards,
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