On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 18:43, Stan Goodman <stan.good...@hashkedim.com> wrote: > Manufacturers of major appliances generally market their product > internationally, which mostly requires user instructions in English. I > have an Italian washing machine that came with the manufacturer's user > guide in Italian, Hungarian, and a number of more exotic languages, plus > the importer's badly written Hebrew translation -- nothing in English, > because the item is not marketed outside Israel (because nowhere else is > it customary for washing machines to heat their own water). I had to > induce the importer to get me an English user guide for a model which is > virtually identical with mine save for the water heater. I have also > done similarly with a German vacuum cleaner. You could probably get the > manufacturer's user manual for your dishwasher by approaching the local > agent of the manufacturer.
As usual, Stan is insightful. My apartment has a Bauknecht washing machine, for which the instruction manual is available only in German. Even the importer could not get for me an English or Hebrew manual. However, a very similar machine is rebranded as Whirlpool and sold in the United States. The Whirlpool manual, in English, is also pertinent to the Bauknecht washer. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
