Alain,
Yes, ALIS does an excellent job.
I am not familiar with the others, so I will have to shop more in
Québec!
Thanks for mentioning them.
It would be great if someone would maintain a web page listing products
and/or utilities
that worked worldwide. I offered to do so a while back, but I got very
very few
recommendations of products that could do this. (Sorry, I can't offer to
try this again at the
moment.)
Tex
Alain wrote:
>
> A 22:32 99-06-27 -0700, Tex Texin a écrit :
> >> > We are just calling a spade a spade. Until the US starts showing more
> >> > respect for conventions not its own, what you term "US bashing" will
> >> > be necessary.
> >
> >Funny thing is, I spend a lot of my time shopping for international
> >software that I can
> >recommend to my international or multinational customers, and I don't
> >see software coming
> >from any other country that is generally international either.
>
> [Alain] From Québec (well, Canada!) you will find it is generalized: ALIS
> products, Matrox products, Softimage (well, it's now Microsoft!) products,
> Copernic, Toon, and so on, and so forth...
>
> (; (:
>
> That said, most American software products I buy are localized in French
> for Québec and Canada (*) ! (Well there are some exceptions, but the
> delinquent companies in question behave differently in France, so there
> might be some bad will in my own country).
>
> So... the bashing is a little bit unfair, I must defend the USA, my
> neighbours to the South... Not all sins come from there...
>
> Alain LaBonté
> Québec
>
> (*) I distinguish Québec and Canada here because there are here two legal
> systems (one is the Napoleonic code, the other is Anglo-Saxon common law
> tradition), and both States (Québec and Canada) have linguistic laws which
> differ in scope. Québec and Canada are like Russian dolls, each one pretty
> complete law-wise...
--
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce
the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know
this is not true. -Robert Wilensky
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