Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
On Friday, October 15, 1999, 5:46:48 PM, tracer wrote:
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Keith Russell>> Aha! I just pulled out a copy of Beta-2 (which I haven't actually
Keith Russell>> installed and tested). CD 5 and CD 6 are labeled "The Microsoft Office
Keith Russell>> Language Pack: featuring multilingual user interface and proofing
Keith Russell>> tool support for seven languages: German, Arabic, Japanese, Korean,
Keith Russell>> Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.")
> Sofar I have only seen a final of German, Hebrew and Arabic on the
> SAME cd... MS seems to be splitting them up in a way that they are
> unlikely to have more then one language of interest at the same
> time....
Interesting...I guess 8-(.
>>> The only problem I found was that one needed the USA windows to run
>>> them as running English ofice 2000 on other European languages could
>>> cause corruption...
Keith Russell>> Okay, not a problem for me, since I'm running English Windows. Might
Keith Russell>> be for others, though.
> Most of the mixed language versions like Thai are unstable and I
> havent seen any critical updates for ages so presumably those should
> be targets of hacking attachs(g)
"Mixed language versions" like Thai? I don't understand what you're
saying here.
>>> and in my experience language mixing here in the
>>> far East is a problem (and a large amount of our business in sorting
>>> it out again...)
Keith Russell>> Fascinating. So what is your business? Please reply in private if
Keith Russell>> you'd like; I'm very interested.
> We sell / build / service PC's in South Thailand and most of our
> customers are the local foreigners who kind of dislike the idea to
> have Thais inside their systems...
> Plus that I myself am involved in the USA in a system security
> company and am at present setting up a second service center in the
> area where I live...
So do you live in Thailand or the U.S.?
> Essentially I plan the technical side but recently due to an
> inevitable motorbike accident I was for 3 months out of action...
Ouch! If you're in Thailand, it was definitely inevitable--the way
they drive.... Are you okay now?
> Anyway many owners insist in mixing German/English/Thai/japanese or
> whatever even after we warn them and then we end up charging and
> cleaning it up again. Till the next mistake....
Great for business, eh?
> Thai has a small utility from a local university which works fine,
Small utility that does what?
> stay away from Thai master, its better looking but also a master in
> system corruption. So if you need Thai, very likely a font could be
> found for theBAT..I havent tried it. (And anyway, I cannot read or
> write it but I can install chinese/japanese or whatever windows....).
So we have someone with a Spanish surname who lives in Taiwan and
doesn't read or write Chinese but does read or write Thai, and another
who lives (or works) in Thailand and doesn't read or write Thai....
This is truly an international community we have here, isn't it? I
think it's great! (As well as being very envious....)
> We have as problem here anyway that hardly anyone wants to pay for
> software so while I wouldnt mind selling theBAT, with all the free
> software around its , well, difficult!
I noticed that in Thailand....
> One main reason I like software like theBAT is that if windows
> corrupts, and that happens a lot, it doesnt impact my mail/news or
> whatever. Ok, I have to dig up my serial etc to reregister it again
> and select the accounts but the number of people I see loosing all
> their mail/addressbooks in Outlook....
That's an EXCELLENT point! Also, of course all the viruses are aimed
at Microsoft software.
>>> or what about the free MS 98 downloads (english) for foreign languages which also
>let you change
>>> the menus to for instance japanese.. Only problem besides that I
>>> wouldnt know how to use it was that on removing I found my internet to
>>> have gone back to English but standard explorer stayed in japanese...
Keith Russell>> I have downloaded all the Korean support. The result was that Internet
Keith Russell>> Explorer and Outlook/Express now work great--but no effect on The Bat,
Keith Russell>> which, as Thomas mentioned, does not appear to pay any attention to
Keith Russell>> the DBCS fonts.
> correct... But Thai has diferent fonts.
Different from what? Do you mean that they're not DBCS fonts? Or that
TB will display Thai using various fonts? Or something else?
Keith Russell>> Thanks--especially for the Office 2000 suggestion. I'll check it out.
> Should work, MS says somewhere it is using unicode, no idea if correct
> or if it changed...
Using Unicode for Office 2000? Or for Windows 2000? I think Unicode
requires OS support....
Thanks for the reply!
Keith Russell
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