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Ha, off-topic but I love that macOS properly calls it Bin when set to British English

by fotta 4y ago

doodpants 4y ago
My first thought was "why would I want to move a piece of malware to the /bin directory?"
reaperducer 4y ago
I love that macOS properly calls it Bin when set to British English macOS has some really exceptional internationalization. I recently discovered that it supports Zuni. There are only a few thousand Zuni-speakers in the world. System Settings → General → Language and Region → Preferred Languages → + → scroll..scroll..scroll → Shiwi'ma/Zuni
- pklausler 4y ago
  It's System Settings -> Language and Region on my Mac (no General). I may change my Mac to Latin for fun.
  - LoganDark 4y ago
    I believe macOS 10.15 and 11 have two-ish generations of different settings organization compared to 10.14 and earlier.
- christoph 4y ago
  After reading this I decided to scroll through the available languages and honestly can't believe it has Kernewek (Cornish), a language from the British county of Cornwall. Reading around, estimates put the number of fluent speakers at around 400 and those with basic language skills at around 5,000.
  - bob778 4y ago
    So at least 0.25% of the fluent speakers were involved in translating it, possibly more
- bigDinosaur 4y ago
  As far as I know this is just a convenience thing so that various apps can query the preferred language - Mac OS itself only supports about 40 or so languages for system translations and third party apps will mostly only support only a few (and one of those will invariably be English). Perhaps it does a few other quality of life things like sets reading order correctly (i.e. RTL or LTR) but your menus won't be in some language that only 2500 people speak.
- realusername 4y ago
  > macOS has some really exceptional internationalization. Ubuntu is pretty good on that aspect as well, that's why I prefer it for my parents compared to Windows which is spotty in a lot of places. As an example "Windows Update" isn't translated and does not mean anything in a foreign language.
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Do they also call the M1 'micro-crisps'?

Ha, off-topic but I love that macOS properly calls it Bin when set to British English

by fotta 4y ago

Ha, off-topic but I love that macOS properly calls it Bin when set to British English

doodpants 4y ago

My first thought was "why would I want to move a piece of malware to the /bin directory?"

reaperducer 4y ago

I love that macOS properly calls it Bin when set to British English macOS has some really exceptional internationalization. I recently discovered that it supports Zuni. There are only a few thousand Zuni-speakers in the world. System Settings → General → Language and Region → Preferred Languages → + → scroll..scroll..scroll → Shiwi'ma/Zuni

pklausler 4y ago
It's System Settings -> Language and Region on my Mac (no General). I may change my Mac to Latin for fun.
- LoganDark 4y ago
  I believe macOS 10.15 and 11 have two-ish generations of different settings organization compared to 10.14 and earlier.
christoph 4y ago
After reading this I decided to scroll through the available languages and honestly can't believe it has Kernewek (Cornish), a language from the British county of Cornwall. Reading around, estimates put the number of fluent speakers at around 400 and those with basic language skills at around 5,000.
- bob778 4y ago
  So at least 0.25% of the fluent speakers were involved in translating it, possibly more
bigDinosaur 4y ago
As far as I know this is just a convenience thing so that various apps can query the preferred language - Mac OS itself only supports about 40 or so languages for system translations and third party apps will mostly only support only a few (and one of those will invariably be English). Perhaps it does a few other quality of life things like sets reading order correctly (i.e. RTL or LTR) but your menus won't be in some language that only 2500 people speak.
realusername 4y ago
> macOS has some really exceptional internationalization. Ubuntu is pretty good on that aspect as well, that's why I prefer it for my parents compared to Windows which is spotty in a lot of places. As an example "Windows Update" isn't translated and does not mean anything in a foreign language.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

Do they also call the M1 'micro-crisps'?