Re: Other options - Tablet PCs

Phil Yff wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:39:20 -0800, Dan Rempel wrote:

Apple bounced back with OS X. I now have OS X.1.5 and I can even change
the languages for menus and dialogs. This is a feature I am not interested
in. I prefer menus and dialogs to be in English, but I have to commend
Apple for incorporating the versatility into the OS.
This is what I thought we were talking about: OS X has one version for
all markets (versus XP requiring different versions), regardless of
whether anyone in particular actually uses that feature.

This may be more quibbling than anything else. The Mac localizations are
not identical at the code level although they are at least an order of
magnitude better than Windows. Both Microsoft and Apple are moving in the
direction where they can be identical. The reason they are not is because
of legacy code. The Mac OS has always been a more structured development
than Windows so Apple has a huge headstart in developing a global OS where
language is just a configuration option. OS X reflects a much more
advanced language strategy than OS 9. I don't know if that's because of
technology limitations or because of marketing approach.

Hmm, I was fairly sure that Apple only sold one OS world wide; are you
certain about the lack of code-level localization?

However, I have some
old non-unicode Japanese electronic dictionaries in both Mac and Windows
versions. I can install them in Windows XP by activating support for
non-unicode programs. I was not able to install them in any previous
version of Windows. Nor have I been able to install them in any version of
the Mac OS up to and including the latest version of OS X.
The Mac versions never worked?

No, but I didn't expect them to. They were old non-unicode programs
designed for the Japanese Mac. I bought them because I wanted to
experiment and they were cheap enough that I could tolerate failure.
Whenever I upgraded my Mac OS or Windows version, I tried installing them
and finally succeeded with XP. They were put out by SystemSoft. Some of
the dictionaries had both Mac and Windows versions on the same disk, others
had separate Mac and Windows disks. I can load up the Mac version in OS
X.1.5 but I end up with mojibake both during installation and in the final
product.

Not that it's very important now, but did you try the Mac stuff with the
Japanese Language kit installed. Just curious.

Dan

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