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Article #362Internationalisation Failures
From: David Gee
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1993 06:39
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1993 06:39
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I would be very interested to hear about internationalisation failures.
There are lots of non computing tales of car names meaning various
embarasing things but I have never heard of any specific computing
anecdotes.
DG
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110cdc,52c16cde999080a8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110cdc,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-08-03 00:29:02 PST Newsgroups: bit.software.international Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!alijku11!aci.cvut.cz!cis.vutbr.cz!insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz From: David Gee <DAVID13@bkmain.east-london.ac.uk> Subject: Internationalisation Failures Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 06:39:51 GMT Message-ID: <1993Aug3.063951.29651@cis.vutbr.cz> Approved: insoft-l-moderator@cis.vutbr.cz Sender: insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz Reply-To: <insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz> Originator: insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Lines: 11