[Techtalk] domain name problem

Rebecca J. Walter rjp at mail.tele.dk
Wed Jun 12 08:37:28 EST 2002


On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 08:31, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:26:28PM -0700, Dave North wrote:
> [...]
> > Perhaps the earlier poster gave you more useful information, but I can
> > tell you (and it gave me a bit of a giggle) that "arbeitsgruppe" is
> > Deutsch for "workgroup."
> 
> Completely OT, but...
> 
> The silver lining here is that it's a beautiful case of English speakers
> being bitten by a case of the whole app not being totally/correctly
> localised for them. Given the large number of times this happens to
> non-English speakers, it struck me as nice to see once or twice (in an
> educational sense).

This used to happen very frequently to SuSE users.  The 7.1 PPC manual
made me feel sick when I looked at it.  It was about 1/3 in German. 
However, those of you who use SuSE and want coherant English will be
pleased to know that they now let me proof the YaST2 texts, the program
texts of the various pro products, and most manuals. (Occasionally a
release schedule keeps me out of some of the pro products.)  So for the
most part SuSE users now get coherant manuals and SuSE-specific tools. 
Sometimes nasty stuff gets past me or my changes get lost in the mad
rush for release, but mostly there is improvement.  

Unfortunately, I don't remember ever seeing a thing about a workgroup
anywhere in the program texts or manuals.  So I have no clue where that
one was hiding.  :-(





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