Re: [tlug] "First SUSE LINUX with complete Japanese support"

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Keith.Wilkinson@example.com wrote:

>www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive04/91_jp.html 
>The premium package with ATOK and fonts is just under 20,000 yen at
>Plathome 
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Uh-oh.... I've always bought SuSE in Japan because it was the only 
distro that was sold with English manuals.  Oh well... I'm more up to 
speed than before, so I guess I'll be okay buying the Japanese manuals.  
I wonder how much of the double price (about Y10,000 for the English 
version at the same shop when I bought it a few months ago) is program 
related, and how much is to pay for the new box and new text in the 
manuals.  Probably 95% translations and text localization costs and 5% 
code.  The kanji-henkan isn't very good on my Japanese-installed SuSE 
(from the English pack), but it works well enough and the Japanese is 
system-wide.......

All that said, I'm happy to hear the news, as SuSE will never be 
successful in Japan without a Japanese language box - fear of foreign 
languages being what it is (talking about myself here too obviously!!).

Lyle