Both Windows and Mac OSX support most of the
"major" languages, (all European national and
most European ethnic languages including eastern
Cyrillic), most of the main African languages
andÝ most Asian languages from Turkish, Hebrew,
Persian, Arabic to Hindu to Thai to all the major
Chinese dialects, Korean and Japanese to
Philippine.
and yes, even Bahasa Indonesia.
Go to System preferences/International/language,
if you only see English click on the "edit list"
button and select the languages you want it to
support.
To change the primary language
(interface/dialogues) you need to drag that
language to the top of the System
preferences/International/language list and then
log out an log back in again. I'm not sure how to
set it up to change globally (for all users)
It's generally pretty much the same with windows.
difference is is that by recall a default Mac
install includes almost all languages except for
those that are transcribed right to left and some
of the minor far eastern and Asian languages
(maybe wrong maybe now days installs all language
support by default) where as Windows installs to
the CD's default language plus US English support
(if default language is not English) and all
other language supports have to be installed as
extra's during the setup or afterwards.
in our house we have a mac setup to display
English, Chinese (simplified), Korean and Japanese
and 3 windows machines setup the same way but
with one being primary interface in Japanese and
another other also having Bahasa as a supported
language.
Application support is another thing though -
both in Windows and Mac OSX... MS Office is
pretty good but outside of that it's all pot luck
and hit and miss e.g. Eudora supports English and
Japanese - but not on the one install you have to
install both versions an launch the one with the
language you want to use
Everywhere we have travelled we have seen both
Mac and Windows operating systems in English
only.
Are other language Operating Systems
available....Bahasa Indonesia for example?
Google tells me that Apple is developing and
Arabic OS and Windows is soon to release an LE
edition of XP in Malay, Thai and some other
language.
Does this mean that the rest of the world has to use English?
TIA
Kev
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