Re: Application, Home, ... folders
Re: Application, Home, ... folders
- Subject: Re: Application, Home, ... folders
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:48:01 +0100
David Remahl <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi!
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>> Wouldn't the "Pictures" and "Applications" strings need to be
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>> localized?
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>> ISTR a message a few days back refering to "Dokumente" being used
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>> for the
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>> "Documents" folder in Germany.
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> No -- I'm afraid this is one of the issues with the international
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> version of MacOS X. Even we germans have to deal with names like
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> "Applications" or "Documents" ,-)
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> Anyway, how could the internationalization be done? Change the
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> names each time I change the langage-settings? Use folder names
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> like .@Pictures etc. internally and only show the
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> "internationalized" name in Finder? Doesn't sound reasonable.
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> Regards,
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> Peter
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While it is true that all systems, even those installed in alternative
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languages, have the english names for most folders in the file system,
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Apple has made some adjustments to the system that indicate that this
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could change in the future. There are localized template folder
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structures for various alternative localizations in this location:
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/System/Library/UserTemplate/
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However, currently none of the templates are really localized. I don't
On a completely unrelated point, the permissions on the folders down there
are inconsistent. Portugese and Norwegian folders are all
world-readable/executable, but whether that affects actual users or not I
couldn't say.
Cheers,
Chris
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