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Hungarian Mac OS X Released
mr100percent writes "Apple's Hungarian web site for Mac OS X is reporting that the Hungarian version of Mac OS X Panther is available for download for 10.3.0, three point releases back, requiring you to downgrade if you're above. Only the system applications have been localized: iApps and Help menus remain in English. A more current Hungarian localization is currently in development."
...man, it's a slow news day when Hungarian translations make the main page. I only know one person who speaks hungarian, and he doesn't use OSX.
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...Icelandic language version of Mac OS X Panther still waiting to be released.
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From what I know it is not Apple in the US that is in charge of the localisation to different languages, like this is Apple Hungary's work and not Apple US's work is this true? at least this is what I've been told when I went to Dubai a few months back, I met with people from Apple ME, I asked them if they had an Arabic OS X? they told me they are still working on that and they released an early version of an Arabic Jaguar which my clients either never heard of or said a three month old monkey using an online translator to translate English to German to Japanese to French back to English then to Russian from that to Arabic could've done a better job translating. I've been told however, that Apple ME is crap, but my experience with them when I needed help with my PB showed that they are worse.
I think Apple in Cupertino should find better people to represent them internationally, they should get those localisations out and fast!
A fene egye meg! Nem értek magyarul.
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I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Lets hope they didn't use the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook!
I wonder why Apple's language support isn't showcased or talked about more often.
I've only seen people complain "It doesn't support Greek!", which is understandable (and maybe it should) but it is localized in so many different languages, right out of the box, and that is underappreciated.
Spanish? Japanese? Korean? etc... it's all in there.
On a side note, I do wonder why they are localizing it for Hungarian. Is it because of strong demand? Ease of translation?
Wake me when it is out in Klingon, please.
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let's see them localize in Hebrew - it's right-to-left, not the usual roman characters, most translated stuff won't be understood by the users (which there are about 10 of...).
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I'm sure that this guy is somehow responsible. If you've ever had to read Hungarian notation, I'm sure you'll agree.
:-)
More info here
-ch
Seems to me it will only downgrade the user experience. Imagine after users install this partial localization on their 10.3.0 and apply incremental updates, as Software Update will no doubt suggest, and end up with applications whose code has been updated without the supporting localized UI resources being updated to match.
After following the link I noiced that Apple's Hungarian site is far cleaner than their main site. Especially the Apple Store page.
They use Latin writing, which is not suitable for writing Hungarian; they had to come up all kinds of crazy accents and stuff.
Unlike European languages, they have no grammatical gender. Hungarian is related to Turkish and Finnish, which are also Asian languages;they are also hard to learn by other Europeans.
Localization must be hard!