On 14/08/07, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > > is a question of downloading and installing the correct dictionaries > and of possibly creating appropriate styles. > > Except that some versions of Windows Vista don't even let you enter data > in a third language.
That's very clever. Vista can read what you are typing into OO Writer, detect that it's German and stop you doing it . Garbage. > It also seems to me that telling the OP of this thread that he won't be > able > > to use different languages for his documents on some versions of Windows > is > > misleading to say the least. > > What is misleading about telling somebody that their OS might not let > them create/edit a document in a third language? Because Vista can't possibly stop you entering text in German or Spanish or whatever. > Just out of curiosity, which versions of Linux can I install that support > > multiple UILs? > > All of them. > [Regardless of whether you meant "On which version of Linux can a user > change the UI language?", or "On which version of Linux can OOo with a > multi-lingual UI run?", or "On which version of Linux can I create a > multi-lingual document?". So I can type "man cat" and get all the details in French? Really? If you wanted to know which versions of OOo shipped with a multi-lingual > UI, then: > * OOo 2.0 ZA, includes 11 languages (I think that this was the first > software to ship with a UI for every official language of South Africa.) > * OxygenOffice 2.0.3, includes 5 languages; (I think I have the right > version number. It might have been 2.0.2.) > * OOo 1.1.3-ZA, includes 5 languages; > * Palado Office 1.1.1, shipped with Thai and English. (OOo Clone); > * ? (Commercial OOo 1.1.1 variant) shipped with Hebrew, Russian, > English, and Arabic UI; The current version of OO doesn't even ship with any English language packs except US English. There might have been a couple of others. Once OOo was released with > language packs, I stopped looking for executables that included two or > more languages for the UI. > > xan > > jonathon > > > xan > > jonathon > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGwO4I2o2GPyX/pG0RAql4AJ95P5luASXqbwxG4Qt5wa4sHTEA1ACcDbRm > MfSHZab22BYBjxrrajP4pcI= > =Sfft > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
