Christopher Hunter wrote:

> >  
> >> I've never seen anyone use Linux in China,
> > 
> > Have you /been/ there?  I was there last month.
> > 
> >> they either use Windows or OSX.
> > 
> > No they don't.  Neither can support Chinese properly, and neither are
> > sanctioned by the Chinese government.  *Every* machine I saw (and it was a
> > *lot* of machines) was running some form of Linux, with the exception of
> > the machines at the airport check-in desks.
> > 
> >> Linux has less share in China than anywhere else. You are playing off a
> >> false "press release" about 4 years ago.
> > 
> > *FOOL.*  I have been to Chine three times in the last two years - have you? 
> > No.  Thought not.
> >  
> >> OSX and Windows have 1000's of available programs out of the box for the
> >> Chinese market (or pirated).
> > 
> > OSX has a total of 90 programmes, and *none* of them are useable in Chinese.
> > 
> >> Linux has basically nothing that works with the Mandarin or Cantonese
> >> languages. 
> > 
> > Tell that to the millions of happy Chinese users.  Like the rest of us,
> > they'll laugh at you.
> > 
> >> OSX ships with these out of the box.
> > 
> > OSX ships with *nothing* useful "out of the box".  It's like Windoze - you
> > have to *buy* all the crap software.

yes, Chris Hunter is jealous of how advanced OSX is when it comes to 
Languages. Apple wrote the book on multi-languages in the mid 80's long 
before Windows could do it and Linux wasn't even around.

OSX is BY FAR the most multiple language based machine you can buy...

See it and weep, Chris...

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/osx5.html#fonts

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/

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