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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 21 14:22:26 +0000 
2007 -------
On my machine this bug is way more dangerous than you describe: when I try to
open some document with a Korean filename by double clickin in Windows Explorer,
it isn't just Open Office who crashes, WINDOWS ITSELF does the same; it freezes
and I can't even summon Task Manager or shut Windows down. For two times I could
only retrieve the battery from my laptop in order to get it back to work. I'm
too frightened to make any further experiment.
My system information:
Windows XP SP2 Media Center Edition 2005 English
Default system and user language both set to Catalan
Language for non-Unicode programs set to Catalan
Open Office 2.0.3 Catalan
I don't want to switch the non-Unicode language to Korean because then all
programs get downloaded and installed in Korean, be they written in Unicode or
not. I don't want to use programs in Korean (my Korean is not that good), I just
happen to need handling DOCUMENTS in Korean.
This is very depressing because I have the same problem on Firefox 2.0.1 and
Thunderbird 1.5.0.7. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235385). My
friends' Korean documents lose their names and become underscores, and I can't
e-mail them my own Korean documents. Since these people don't know English,
changing the name is not always an acceptable option.
Since I haven't lost faith on open source software, my workaround will be
speeding up my migration to Linux. However, after this experience an average
Asian would just give up thinking that all these programs are but a hobby for
Western geeks, especially given that even Notepad can handle foreign characters
in my configuration. No wonder now that Windows/IE hold a 99.8% market share in
Korea!
My own impression is that English is way too pervasive in the open source
community, as if everybody was only using their mother tongue for themselves and
English for international communication. The needs of multilingual people like
me aren hardly considered. And in spite of national localizations, when you're
out in the Internet looking for help, help is available only in English.

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