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> Remember Microsoft Windows, which considered changing OS display language a enterprise/pro/ultimate feature, which was NOT included in home edition? I rememb
by cesarb 5y ago
> Remember Microsoft Windows, which considered changing OS display language a enterprise/pro/ultimate feature, which was NOT included in home edition?
I remember Microsoft Windows (and MS-DOS) having a hardcoded OS display language; if you installed a Brazilian edition of Microsoft Windows, all you got is Brazilian Portuguese, since the translations are hardcoded within each binary (but you could still change things like date format and keyboard layout), and if you wanted a different OS display language, you had to wipe and reinstall. I vaguely recall reading that this had changed starting with IIRC Windows Vista, which put the translations in separate files (instead of hardcoding them in the executables and DLLs).