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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."
...Icelandic language version of Mac OS X Panther still waiting to be released.
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Actually, a lot of the localisation is done in Ireland (at Apple's last internal manufacturing site, now that Sacramento has been shut down). How do I know? I work there! :-)
Alison
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That's pretty interesting, in that a lot of Oracle's I18N work is also done in Ireland. I wonder what it is that makes Ireland such the I18N hotbed?
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A fene egye meg! Nem értek magyarul.
They speak English.
They're part of the EU.
They have good education, particularly in IT.
They were so friggin' poor 10 years ago that they were attractive to outside investment.
Very good beer.
They seem to have whipped their terrorism problem for the most part.
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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?
I'm afraid you argument may be flawed since how many people in Wales speak Welsh? Well enough to use a computer in Welsh? As a primary language so that they wouldn't perfer to use the regular English(CDN/US/UK/AU/insert flavour here) version? The point was about tapping into new markets. Translating into Welsh might get them access only to ($4 billion-- that is assuming 25% meet the mentioned criteria which I think is safely high--but I'm not in the UK so I could b wrong). Whereas a Hungarian version would probably open up around $11 billion. For example I'd rather use a Candian English OS (eg "colour" not "color") but I will use UK or US, but I will not use Korean or Welsh (since I know neither language).
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Well, there are Klingon localizations of a few GNUstep apps iirc (Affiche being one, iirc). I don't know if those have been ported to OS X, though.
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With great difficulty, I suspect! Just as well, then, that there's a lot more than manufacturing at both sites; there are call centers, R&D, operations support, localisation, finance, applestore, etc, etc. I work in a secure lab, yet I walk through the production area every day. G5s everywhere.
Both sites are a lot more than manufacturing, y'know ...
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
Well, it's not terribly exotic if we look at usage - there are many many languages that have fewer speakers. OTOH it is exotic inasmuch as it doesn't have any relatives in the surrounding countries - its not slavic, it doesn't have anything to do with germanic or latin 'derivatives', and linguists think that even the finnish relation is strained. So it is a small miracle that it survived at all for 1000+ years.
CP: "AFAIK almost all hackers know english ESR states it va sa requirement) opens up the market you have access to dramatically and we all now Apple can use as much of it as possible."
Well, major OSs are translated - hungarian MS Windows follows the english debut by only a few weeks (same with Office). KDE has excellent hungarian support, FreeBSD has a hungarian section, etc. The unfortunate thing is that MS thinks of us as a significant market, for our government (the last one) payed them tons of money to force down MS products on the throats of students and workers in higher education. So me, as a student, I'm now entitled to a freely downloadable (its called microsoft campus) Windows XP professional, and Office XP. What really sucks is that I use neither, yet indirectly, my usage for these software was already payed for.
wow, a woman posting on slashdot that works for apple....
prepare for marriage proposals!
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