Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk

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Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 31, 2002 @10:08PM from the wanna-sell-here-do-ya dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Beeb reports, "The main organisation working for the Nynorsk language got most of Norway's high schools to threaten to boycott all Microsoft software if they didn't come up with a New Norwegian version of Office." Which brings up questions for Open Source developers: What's involved in translating programs? Is there a process that can be followed to make the inevitable easier? Is there a group providing guidelines for this already? -- Do you work in program translation? Step up and do tell."

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first post of the year by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-31 22:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

happy new year
12th post! by kmweber · 2002-12-31 22:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Woo-hoo!

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"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
When a man by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-31 22:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

has gaysexwithdogs, everything gets translated to the universal language of pleasure and pain, depending on the mutt's anus size. Don't you agree?
In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-31 22:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

the program translate YOU! Unless you have gaysexwithdogs, try it!
happppy N3y Y34r by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-31 23:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

drunkeness is a virtue celebrated by me and my crew. and if you dont like then .....thats just too bad. don't like that, go back to sleep. some of us still are having a goooood time. oh boy this better be annonynmus cowarrddddd
Re:Boycotts work by kedi · 2002-12-31 23:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

snillfisk's comment is the most informative one on this thread, still it has only one point. will someone please mod this up.
Yes, however ... by BoomerSooner · 2003-01-01 14:57 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Have you ever seen the hot ass women that come out of the nordic areas (Norway, Sweden, Finland, ...). Go to Epcot and you'll see (it's cheaper than going there).