Re: Path to ... as string [was Re: Complete newbie]
Re: Path to ... as string [was Re: Complete newbie]
- Subject: Re: Path to ... as string [was Re: Complete newbie]
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:24:50 +0200
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 4/26/03 3:41 AM, "Federico" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>Sabato, 26 apr 2003, alle 11:55 Europe/Rome, Paul Berkowitz ha scritto:
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>>That's interesting. Is this true for all languages - Chinese, etc?
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>>The names
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>>of all folders created by the OS are in English, as known to the file
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>>system?
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>I believe so... you can test this yourself by choosing a random
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>language in System Preferences :) take a look at this screenshot:
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>http://geek.iworks.it/Public/Misc/localized.jpg
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No, I don't think that proves anything. That means I'll have a US version of
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OS 10.2.5, with Italian or Chinese set as first preferred language. That's
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not necessarily the same as an Italian or Chinese or "International" version
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of the OS with the same language set as first preferred language.
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So I guess the question now is - is it the same, or different? Are there no
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longer different localized versions of the OS, just different preferred
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languages?
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Well, I believe Frederico has noticed a truth.
There is no US nor French nor Italian OS file system, there is just an
Unix one.
And the behavior Frederico noticed seems to have appeared since Jaguar.
When I look, using the Finder, at the contents of my startup disk, I can
for instance see a folder called "/Bibliotheque". And even with the
accent above the first "e": I just don't dare, who knows why, try to
reproduce it on this list.
Now, if I do an 'ls -al /' in the shell, I still get a "/Library" folder.
As a side note:
I installed my system with French as preferred language (long time ago:
could have been a 10.0.4; since then, only upgrades up to 10.2.4).
I also ran Mike Bombich's DeLocalizer because my poor PowerBook's 10 GB
hard drive became very scarce.
But, as I said, before Jaguar, /Library was /Library.
Point.
And, anyway, I am really amazed since Rhapsody's incarnation of OS X and
its successors, by the achievements of Apple's Engineers (really:
Engineers, with a big E).
They managed to organize the coexistence of a truly well-behaved Unix
with a true Macintosh-like OS while this has been just a dream, since
years, for other OS implementors.
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Do you have any way of testing this on a non-geek computer, just an ordinary
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Italian Mac OS 10.2.x with no modifications made?
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As you can notice, I somewhere lost the purpose of the thread ;-)
But, as far as I know, I have a non-geek computer, just an ordinary
french one.
So, if I could be of some help, what kind of test could I run?
HTH,
Axel
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