Re: Compiled AppleScripts for 'other' languages
Re: Compiled AppleScripts for 'other' languages
- Subject: Re: Compiled AppleScripts for 'other' languages
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:33:36 -0700
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At 12:59 +0100 6/21/2003, John Delacour wrote:
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At 2:07 pm +1000 21/6/03, Dale Gillard wrote:
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> Does an AppleScript written in English have to be rewritten (ie
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> localised) to work on say a French user's Mac?
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No, except that it must be aware of the peculiarities of the
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environment -- names, dates etc.
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It was originally, planned, I understand, to have different
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'dialects' of Applescript, but it never happened.
It did happen (Apple released an English dialect somewhat working French
dialect, and a Japanese dialect I never played with, lacking the language).
The dialects other than English went away, and then the support for them
went away and English was internalized.
It was amusing to watch a script decompiled into something resembling
French (when written in something resembling English) and vice versa.
As I understand it, there was a chicken and egg situation: even people
comfortable in French or Japanese tended to use the English dialect because
it worked better. Apple didn't see a demand for improved (or other)
dialects since customers were working in English.
The C dialect didn't see the light of day outside Apple...I don't know how
far it got internally.
Apple Event Manager makes provision (or made provision) for multi language
error messages...nothing I know of took care of user dialog contents and so
on.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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