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Mac Hebrew Soap Opera Continues

Dark Nexus writes "The Register has a response (actually FROM Microsoft this time) in the continuing soap opera surrounding support for Hebrew (and other right to left languages) in Microsoft products for the Mac."

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  1. It IS just good business by Spencerian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Otherwise, Microsoft would have to cater to other languages with smaller populations as well. Logically, if Apple doesn't provide support, adding support in the MS product doesn't make sense, either.

    I'm betting that there's a larger clientele than Hebrew out there. It's an artificial language, and is growing pretty fast, based on some stats (yes, yes, I know--lies, damned lies, and statistics).

    Klingon. It's not widespread as Esperanto, but much hotter.

    I bet the Cut/Copy/Paste commands in Klingonnase would be more proactive...like...

    SLASH/CLONE/SMASH

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