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David Landgren wrote: > Martin Ebourne did write: > > [...] > >> While I can understand the problem for non-native english speakers it's >> an endemic problem to any software at that level (as opposed to the UI >> level). I am not aware of any language that's translated in this way >> (although there's bound to be at least one, please correct me). > > Excel macros spring to mind, at least for some late 90s version. SUM() > became SOMME() in French Excel, and the most hateful thing about it was ...and AVERAGE() became KESKIARVO() in Finnish Excel. Oh, the pain. > the fucktards who coded the thing didn't even abstract the linguistic > label away from the underlying op, which meant that an US Excel macro > wouldn't run on a French Excel program. Yeah, baby, yeah. Let's do l10n and i18n by search-and-replace! Another Excel-hate: "smart input" -- if I enter 12/10 it *ass*umes that I meant December tenth. It could assume other things, like a rational number 6/5, or a string "12/10", but of course it lives in the world of bean counters and sales projections and therefore it assumes (hateful) US date. > It does work these days as expected, and the above recollections all a > bit hazy now (thank heavens for small mercies) so I no doubt have the > details a bit mixed up, but I do remember pain. > > David
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