Hi Paul, I think it boils down to two questions: 1) Who's likely to upgrade first � 8.1/8.6 users to 9.1 or X ... or Office 2001 users to Office X? You can't do the latter until you've done the former.
2) Who might/should be expected to "upgrade" first � 8.1/8.6 users to 9.1 or X ... or non-English speakers to English?!? I vote for the Unicode version. I'm English-speaking and use 9.1 so take this for what it's worth ... at least two cents :-). Beth On 3/22/02 9:16 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone interested and affected by the following could > respond. > > I will soon be releasing two sets of scripts to export and import almost > everything - contacts, groups, calendar, tasks, notes, messages, folders, > custom views, accounts, mailing lists, signatures - from one identity of > Entourage X or 2001 to any other of the same or the other version, > separately for each sort of item. You'll be able to choose all, or selected, > items, or a subset by category in Entourage X, or various other ways. There > are also conversion scripts to export to and from Outlook Mac and Windows, > Yahoo and Hotmail online calendars and address books, and to Excel, from > where you can make necessary adjustments and export on to other PIMs or > FileMaker Pro. Also archive message folders by date, and lots of other > stuff. > > Here's the question. For Entourage X, I will make it fully international, > usable by people with all languages and alphabets (including Asian, east > European, etc.). That can be done by using Entourage's and AppleScript's > Unicode capabilities. But AppleScript's Unicode, in a way that it can be > used in these scripts, was not introduced until OS 9.1. So for Entourage > 2001, I have to decide whether to make it Unicode - restricting the scripts > to 9.1/9.2 users but making them useable by people with 2001 outside North > America and Western Europe - or leave out Unicode, restricting the scripts > to North Americans and Western Europeans but enabling users on OS 8.6 and > 8.1 (are there many of you left?) to use the scripts. > > This is probably not the right place to ask, since 95% of you are probably > English-speaking, (and most on 9.1 or X, as well, so either version would be > fine for you) and would be weighted towards the non-Unicode version if > you're on 8.6. > > But I'd appreciate hearing any opinions here. > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
