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New Language Features in Leopard
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tom140 (apparently)
- 05:26am Oct 17, 2007 PSTvia emailApple's just-published pages on Leopard's tech specs and features
indicate a number of new language capabilities in 10.5, in particular:
+3 new OS localizations (Russian, Polish, and European Portuguese),
bringing the total to 18.
+Several new languages supported via keyboards/fonts: Tibetan,
Kazakh, Uyghur, Kurdish, Jawi.
+New spell checkers for Russian and Danish.
+A Japanese dictionary alongside the English one in Dictionary.app
A more complete summary can be found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/leopardlang.html
There may be others not mentioned in these lists. Features which
some had hoped to see but which do not seem to be present include
Arabic/Hebrew localization, Georgian keyboard/fonts, vertical/ruby
layout in TextEdit for Japanese/Chinese, and free voices for
languages other than English in text-to-speech.
JolinWarren (apparently)
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Oct 19, 2007 11:35 am
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Re: New Language Features in Leopard
At 5:26 on 17-10-2007, Tom Gewecke wrote:
> +3 new OS localizations (Russian, Polish, and European Portuguese),
> bringing the total to 18.
[...]
> +A Japanese dictionary alongside the English one in Dictionary.app
Yest still no international English localisation or support for
international English in the (Oxford English!) dictionary. I would
have thought the market was large enough: UK, Ireland, India, New
Zealand, Australia, South Africa, ...
> Features which some had hoped to see but which do not seem to be present
[...]
> include free voices for languages other than English in text-to-speec
Or free English voices with non-American accents. I think I detect a
theme: in Apple's world, English=American English. :-/
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rsf
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Oct 28, 2007 4:07 am
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Re: New Language Features in Leopard
[Yet] still no international English localisation or support for international English in the (Oxford English!) dictionary. Actually, that's the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition (it says so right in the Preferences dialog), and also the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. I sympathize with your frustration; surely the market for international English is greater than, say, European Portuguese. On the other hand, perhaps the distance between American and international English is greater than that between Brazilian and European Portuguese. (Interesting that there's no Castilian Spanish yet -- or is the default Spanish Castilian and not Latin American, or whatever the correct term is?) -- Russell
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JolinWarren (apparently)
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Oct 29, 2007 6:36 am
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Re: New Language Features in Leopard
At 4:07 on 28-10-2007, rsf wrote:
> I sympathize with your frustration; surely the market for
> international English is greater than, say, European Portuguese.
I hadn't thought of that comparison, but you're right. Even more
frustrating! ;-)
> On the other hand, perhaps the distance between American and
> international English is greater than that between Brazilian and
> European Portuguese.
Not being a Portuguese speaker, I couldn't comment on this. But I
would think a greater difference would only make it more worthwhile...
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=> Jolin
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