Re: ISP question
CL wrote:
> I try not to miss opportunities to whine, pout, and bitch at content
> providers and the folks whose software, driver CDs and web sites
> automatically choose an installation or display language without asking.
> So far, only H-P has seemed to listen, adding a "Select default
> language" window to their installation routines for Linux (HP Toolbox).
> Setup takes less than three minutes. Sadly, installing software for
> the same printer on my wife's WIN XP-J laptop took over 30 minutes, when
> it installed correctly, and the damned CD kept burbling away in English,
> and then Japanese, switching to long-form Chinese at odd moments, no
> matter what we tried. And, when it got to the hardware installation, it
> completely changed character encoding specs (I _think_ from ShiftJIS to
> EUC) and the screen went completely mojibake, replacing all characters
> with question marks.
>
These automated things generate some interesting results. I installed a
software package to learn Papiamentu (an African/Portuguese/Dutch creole
that is the native language of my island), and the software package
poked around my machine and concluded that I would learn most
effectively if it presented all translations and explanations in
Japanese. I was happy to find out that I actually could handle it that
way, but that certainly would not have been my first choice.
KWW
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