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Subject:Re: UK/US English - What to do? From:Scott Browne <sbrowne -at- UNICOMP -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 7 May 1999 16:51:16 -0500
Mike Stockman wrote:
> Not to be too blunt about it, but if your company would make the
> questionable decision to ship a product developed using the wrong
> language for the intended market, they certainly won't care much one way
> or the other which choice you make in the documentation.
Not true. The intended market for that product *was* the UK. Remember, I
said they were tired of doing it, so we are absorbing it into our existing
product. As a result, this interface will only be the graphic section of a
much larger product. It is *our* product that is intended for an American
market. We just have this piece incorporated into it, now.
Scott
sbrowne -at- unicomp -dot- net
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