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  Re: This year's most ARROGANT email  
From: Jon A  Cruz
Date: 18 Sep 1998 02:30:52
Message: <3601F152.DE44501C@geocities.com>
Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> Josh English wrote in message <36013B15.12B901EE@spiritone.com>...
> >I haven't seen how Windows 95 has been sold in Europe, but did they really
> change
> >all of the documentation to the Brittish spellings of words like "colour"
> and
> >"minimised"?
> 
> I don't know, but it's not like W95 would be sold in English over here in
> Europe. Well, in Great Britain, Ireland etc. it probably is :-)
> I made a quick check: The international W95 CDs of the MSDN contain W95
> versions for the languages below (for some of which I have no idea what they
> are :-), but I could not find a British-English version, and on the U.S.
> version CD contains only one language version.
> 
> :-)
> Johannes.
> 
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> Arabic.ena
> Arabic.loc
> Basque
[SNIP]

Just FYI, at the Unicode conference last week, the guy showing Office
2000 (I think that's one deadline they'll at least be able to make)
mentioned that 50% of the Office revenues are from English sales, and
only 40% from the US. That leaves 10% non-US English.


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