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From: Helmut Meukel on 21 Mar 2010 14:52
"ralph" <nt_consulting64(a)yahoo.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2rchp55ng5ms96kgul8hrpbmv3fm3knppb(a)4ax.com...
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:13:22 +0100, "Helmut Meukel"
> <NoSpam(a)NoProvider.de> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>OTOH, as a user I hate those ignorant american programmers whose
>>programs create folders named "Programs", "Common Files",
>>"Documents and Settings", "Application Data", etc. on my german
>>system instead to use the existing folders "Programme", "Gemeinsame
>>Dateien", "Dokumente und Einstellungen", "Anwendungsdaten", etc.
>>
>
> Hummmpf!
>
> And I suppose it is our fault you all come up with different names and
> odd spellings for EVERYTHING!
>
> Frankly I'm amazed you can understand each other let alone expecting
> us to make heads or tails out of it.
>
> -ralph
> <g>



Ralph,

sorry, your answer didn't show up in my newsreader until today where
suddenly some 30 messages - all written March 10, 11 or 12 -
showed up in my newsreader.

It's all Micro$ofts fault who insist on localisation. I wouldn't care if the
folders had all english names.
There are versions of Office where you got even the VBA keywords
localized! IIRC, it was with Office 95.
I wouldn't complain if it still allowed the use of the english keywords, but
no go.
And the translations were bad...

Even with todays Excel if I program Excel in VBA or VB6 and want to put
a formula into a cell I have to use the english commands. But Excel itself
expects that I enter the formula in German!
With a german Excel if I enter in cell A4: =SUM(A1:A3) I'll get #NAME?
and I must enter =SUMME(A1:A3)
If I use VBA to write the Formula it's .Cells(4,1).Formula = "=SUM(A1:A3)"

Did the guys at M$ think at all? <g>

Helmut.

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