On 10/31/07, Edward de Jong <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have confirmed that if you create an empty folder with the name
> de.lproj then the PRINT dialog will come up in German like you expect
> it to for that language. This is a very bad design decision on
> Apple's part, because if for example my program is running on a
> chinese system and I don't have the chinese language implemented
> (which I don't at the moment), the PRINT dialog will come up in some
> other language which makes no sense at all. The PRINT dialog should
> follow the system locale and not be tied in any way to the
> application. The user says "Chinese" in the control panel and all
> system dialogs should follow that preference.
The flip side is that it can be very confusing if multiple different
languages are used within the same application, and that it can lead
to a better user experience when all text in a particular application
are the same language (as currently happens with the current
implementation).
--
Clark S. Cox III
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