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#165
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
A half-hearted attempt to what it should be... What does it offer? A few applications for english speaking users.

Its not localised, so it scares off customers in markets like france, germany, finnland,...
just a note, i dont know about those, but here in norway english is a mandatory second language...

also, i find myself preferring the english language versions vs the translated ones. for one thing, the documentation is more complete. and there is less odd concept translations. i recently reported what i initially thought was a bug related to on-screen keyboard sounds, but later discovered that the setting was about the physical keys on my N800. reason? what was labeled keys in english had picked up the norwegian word for keyboard on translation.

also, when it comes to computers, english is lingua franca, like it or not.

hell, the number of translated apps vs english only apps on any platform is depressing, with open source ones being a beacon of hope most of the time.