Hungarian Mac OS X Released 60
mr100percent writes "Apple's Hungarian web site for Mac OS X is reporting that the Hungarian version of Mac OS X Panther is available for download for 10.3.0, three point releases back, requiring you to downgrade if you're above. Only the system applications have been localized: iApps and Help menus remain in English. A more current Hungarian localization is currently in development."
Re:In related news.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In related news.... (Score:2)
I only know one person who speaks hungarian, and he doesn't use OSX.
I'm willing to bet there are 10,000,000+ people in Hungary who speak Hungarian as well.
I'd give you a +1 insightful (Score:1)
Re:This article is a fucking insult (Score:1)
in other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Hungarian Translation (Score:5, Funny)
hungarian_notation? (Score:2, Funny)
Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:3, Informative)
They're part of the EU.
They have good education, particularly in IT.
They were so friggin' poor 10 years ago that they were attractive to outside investment.
Very good beer.
They seem to have whipped their terrorism problem for the most part.
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:2)
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:1)
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Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:2)
How do you think Apple does translations, on an assembly line?
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:3, Informative)
With great difficulty, I suspect! Just as well, then, that there's a lot more than manufacturing at both sites; there are call centers, R&D, operations support, localisation, finance, applestore, etc, etc. I work in a secure lab, yet I walk through the production area every day. G5s everywhere.
Both sites are a lot more than manufacturing, y'know ...
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:3, Funny)
prepare for marriage proposals!
Re:Who is responsible for the localisations? (Score:1)
I don't think that this translation is done in Ireland. Situation in Hungary is very odd: there is a distribution firm called HDSys [hdsys.hu], which is responsible to Hungarian sales, but no service centers, tiny allowable markup. It is marvelous that they translated it to Hungarian.
Besides, there are Hungarian-speaker mac users. Just check out beszeljukmac.com [beszeljukmac.com] and mac.hu [www.mac.hu].
And yes, I expect a lot more MacOS users in the future, thanks to the Hungarian translation. There is a user friendly series in a local tv cha
Eszem-faszom megáll! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eszem-faszom megáll! (Score:2)
Ps.. to the mods.. parent post if funny...
Re:Eszem-faszom megáll! (Score:2)
Coming from a Mrs. it is a physical impossibility.
Delirious - pokers stops! (Score:1)
Courtesy of http://intertran.tranexp.com/ [tranexp.com]
Re:Eszem-faszom megáll! (Score:1)
Kék ibolyát láttam
El akart hervadni
Szabad e locsolni?
Hehe, it's only a week late... I met my wife in Budapest 3 years ago during Easter.
Hungarian Phrasebook (Score:1)
Amazing (Score:3, Insightful)
I've only seen people complain "It doesn't support Greek!", which is understandable (and maybe it should) but it is localized in so many different languages, right out of the box, and that is underappreciated.
Spanish? Japanese? Korean? etc... it's all in there.
On a side note, I do wonder why they are localizing it for Hungarian. Is it because of strong demand? Ease of translation?
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Interesting)
If there are any turkish reading this, they would agree. Apple is almost perfectionist in translating stuff. E.g. they translated Netscape 4.x to turkish while no turkish netscape exists.
The "turkish" Windows really, really sux. They translated it like babelfish, real funny (or, tragicomic?), "invented words" etc. While on the other hand, since M
Re:Amazing (Score:1)
I speak English, not fluent in any other (human) language;
Client (human) speaks: Turkish/English/Portugese/others...
(Seems that the ".", "i", other keys are located differently on the keyboard. )
I was shoulder-coached by the user about the keyboard differences; he, not technically inclined at all, read me the dialogs.
Items I had him translate were sometimes non-sensical, bu
Re:Amazing (Score:1)
Windows Turkish amazingly sucks. I mean, real amazingly. I know couple of translators worked for the '95 translation which is root of all, those were guys who are purely computer clueless people, they were using a dos (also virus infected) prowrite diskette at '96 even!
How do I know them? Eh
I can't forgive them since there were excellent, native turkish Mac OS aro
Re:Amazing (Score:1)
Thanks to os x language support I can easily combine Korean, Japanese, Chinese (both flavors), and English in my academic writing. Really a joy to use and largely unappreciated by the my benighted colleagues stuck with windows.
"In the north it's the women. .
Just imagine... (Score:2)
Wake me when it is out in Klingon, please.
Re:Just imagine... (Score:1)
After all, Hungary is that small or unknown a country (as opposed to Welsh and some other exotic Anglo-Saxon languages spoken my minorities that Microsoft has translated to).
Personally I'm really surprised. Simply translating software (this is fundamental on a desktop where people are less technical and less likely to know english -- AFAIK almost all hackers know english ESR states it va sa re
Re:Just imagine... (Score:1)
I rest my case!
Re:Just imagine... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Just imagine... (Score:1)
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Objection! Your honor!
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Estimated speakers of Swahili: 30,000,000
Advice to Apple: Forget about Cree
Advice to Slashdot: If Apple still make the mistake, do not post news entitled "Cree Mac OS X Released"
Re:Just imagine... (Score:3, Informative)
Well, it's not terribly exotic if we look at usage - there are many many languages that have fewer speakers. OTOH it is exotic inasmuch as it doesn't have any relatives in the surrounding countries - its not slavic, it doesn't have anything to do with germanic or latin 'derivatives', and linguists think that even the finnish relation is strained. So it is a small miracle that it survived at all for 1000+ years.
CP: "AFAIK almost all hackers k
Re:Just imagine... (Score:3, Funny)
Hungarian is easy... (Score:1)
Re:Hungarian is easy... (Score:2)
Oh, wait, no it isn't.
-fred
Aw that's nothing, how about Hungarian Notation? (Score:2)
Is Microsoft behind this? (Score:2)
More info here [folklore.org]
-ch
I wonder why Apple lets them do this (Score:1)