From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 9: 5:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sentry.granch.com (sentry.granch.com [212.109.197.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678B737B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shelton@sentry.granch.com) Received: (from shelton@localhost) by sentry.granch.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f5LG5Ri07657; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:05:27 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from shelton) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: "Rashid N. Achilov" Organization: Granch Ltd. To: Bill Moran Subject: Re: Docs in SGML Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:05:27 +0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01061622231103.21543@sentry.granch.com> <01061623260305.21543@sentry.granch.com> <3B2CC1A2.AE3AC38C@iowna.com> In-Reply-To: <3B2CC1A2.AE3AC38C@iowna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062123052709.00392@sentry.granch.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 17 June 2001 21:41, Bill Moran wrote: > "Rashid N. Achilov" wrote: > > Ten (10) years ago in USSR were only DOS boxes (Imagine, NO Windoze :-)) > > ). And, of course, no programs with Russian interface. :-)That time I > > already was a Programmer :-) Since that I'm got so accustomed to English > > interface, that and now for me "1 Помощь 2 Меню 3 Смотр" (here was used > > russian letters) looks like strange and enormous rather "1 Help 2 Menu 3 > > View". > > > > Thats way I find all this noise about "localization" useless for me. > > I can understand that and I respect your ability to work in 2 different > languages. Being from the U.S., I'm pretty lazy in that aspect as I've > only needed to know English. First time it was a mandatory :-) Next time it was preferrable environment :-) My first computer was BIG :-) IBM 370 :-) And I think, that "localized" versions, (especially Windoze, exclude M$ Office) worked worse, localized games can hung/crash at any time etc...But it is offtopic there, when you want to continue, let's go to mail :-) > However, keep in mind that the localization effort is for everyone using > a computer. There are probably many, many more people in the USSR that > would not be comfortable trying to work in English software than there > are people like you. Well, for office manager or accountant it is true. For programmer, developer, sysadmin or like it is completely false. I can't imagine UNIX user (even user :-)), who doesn't know English :-)) -- With Best Regards. Rashid N. Achilov (RNA1-RIPE), Web: http://granch.ru/~shelton Granch Ltd. system administrator, e-mail: achilov@granch.ru PGP: 83 CD E2 A7 37 4A D5 81 D6 D6 52 BF C9 2F 85 AF 97 BE CB 0A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message